Multitouch control of petrotechnical software

• US 9,329,690 B2
• Filed: 03/05/2013
• Issued: 05/03/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 03/09/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Schlumberger Technology Corporation (Schlumberger NV)
• Original Assignee: Schlumberger Technology Corporation (Schlumberger NV)
• Inventors: Moody, Michael James, Dineen, Patrick Daniel
• Primary Examiner(s): SALOMON, PHENUEL S
• Application Number:
  US13/785,613
• Publication Number:
  US 20130239052A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,155 Days
• Field of Search: 715/810, 367/68, 702/50
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/017 Gesture based interaction, e.g. based on a set of recognized hand gestures interaction based on gestures traced on a digitiser G06F3/04883
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/02 Agriculture; Fishing; Forestry; Mining

Abstract

A method can include commencing a petrotechnical analysis workflow that includes a plurality of tasks; initializing one or more touch modules associated with the workflow; accessing data associated with the workflow; rendering one or more visualizations of the data to a touchscreen; and sensing multiple touches via the touchscreen for controlling one or more actions associated with the workflow according to the one or more touch modules. Various other apparatuses, systems, methods, etc., are also disclosed.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

commencing a petrotechnical analysis workflow that comprises a plurality of tasks;

initializing one or more touch modules associated with the workflow;

accessing data associated with the workflow wherein the data comprise property data associated with a geologic environment;

rendering visualizations to a touchscreen to render a first visualization of at least one two-dimensional plot of at least a portion of the property data to a first individual panel of the touchscreen and to render a second visualization of a perspective view of at least one feature in the geological environment to a second individual panel of the touchscreen wherein the one or more touch modules comprise a first set of two-dimensional plot scale touch associations for the first visualization and a second set of perspective view touch associations for the second visualization; and

sensing multiple touches via the touchscreen for controlling one or more actions associated with the workflow according to the one or more touch modules wherein the actions comprise an action that alters the second visualization based at least in part on sensing multiple touches via the first individual panel and an action that alters the first visualization based at least in part on sensing multiple touches via the second individual panel.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the one or more touch modules associate touches and actions for each of the plurality of tasks.

3. The method of claim 1 comprising, responsive to sensing multiple touches, rendering a menu of items to a region of the touchscreen.

4. The method of claim 3 wherein the menu comprises one of a plurality of different menus associated with the workflow.

5. The method of claim 3 wherein the menu is associated with one of the plurality of tasks and comprises items for performing that task.

6. The method of claim 3 wherein the menu comprises tool items.

7. The method of claim 3 wherein the menu comprises help items.

8. The method of claim 1 wherein the first individual panel comprises one or more opacity controls for controlling opacity in the second visualization of the second individual panel.

9. The method of claim 1 wherein the property data comprise simulation results.

10. The method of claim 1 wherein the data comprise volume data for a reservoir organized with respect to three axes, wherein the rendering visualizations renders a visualization of a portion of the volume data and wherein the sensing multiple touches comprises sensing a swipe that controls traversing at least one of the three axes of the volume data to render another visualization of at least another portion of the volume data.

11. The method of claim 1 wherein the at least one two-dimensional plot comprises well logs and wherein the sensing multiple touches via the touchscreen senses multiple touches for controlling one or more actions associated with the well logs according to one of the one or more touch modules being a well logs module that associates multiple touches with one or more actions for analyzing well logs.

12. The method of claim 11 wherein the rendering corresponds to one of the plurality of tasks being a well logs analysis task of the workflow.

13. The method of claim 1 wherein the rendering visualizations to a touchscreen renders a visualization of a seismic slice of a seismic data volume and wherein the sensing multiple touches via the touchscreen controls selection of the seismic slice.

14. The method of claim 1, responsive to sensing multiple touches via the second individual panel, rendering information in the first individual panel associated with data represented by the second visualization in the second individual panel.

15. The method of claim 14 comprising sensing at least one touch via the first individual panel and, responsive to sensing the at least one touch, altering the second visualization in the second individual panel.

16. A system comprising:

a processor;

memory operatively coupled to the processor; and

one or more modules stored in the memory that comprise instructions executable by the processor to instruct the system to

commence a petrotechnical analysis workflow that comprises a plurality of tasks;

initialize one or more touch modules associated with the workflow;

access data associated with the workflow wherein the data comprise property data associated with a geologic environment;

render visualizations to a touchscreen to render a first visualization of at least one two-dimensional plot of at least a portion of the property data to a first individual panel of the touchscreen and to render a second visualization of a perspective view of at least one feature in the geological environment to a second individual panel of the touchscreen wherein the one or more touch modules comprise a first set of two-dimensional plot scale touch associations for the first visualization and a second set of perspective view touch associations for the second visualization; and

sense multiple touches via the touchscreen for controlling one or more actions associated with the workflow according to the one or more touch modules wherein the actions comprise an action that alters the second visualization based at least in part on sensing multiple touches via the first individual panel and an action that alters the first visualization based at least in part on sensing multiple touches via the second individual panel.

17. The system of claim 16 wherein the one or more touch modules comprise sets of associations between multiple touches and actions.

18. One or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media comprising computer-executable instructions to instruct a computing device to:

commence a petrotechnical analysis workflow that comprises a plurality of tasks;

initialize one or more touch modules associated with the workflow;

access data associated with the workflow wherein the data comprise property data associated with a geologic environment;

render visualizations to a touchscreen to render a first visualization of at least one two-dimensional plot of at least a portion of the property data to a first individual panel of the touchscreen and to render a second visualization of a perspective view of at least one feature in the geological environment to a second individual panelregion of the touchscreen wherein the one or more touch modules comprise a first set of two-dimensional plot scale touch associations for the first visualization and a second set of perspective view touch associations for the second visualization; and

sense multiple touches via the touchscreen for controlling one or more actions associated with the workflow according to the one or more touch modules wherein the actions comprise an action that alters the second visualization based at least in part on sensing multiple touches via the first individual panel and an action that alters the first visualization based at least in part on sensing multiple touches via the second individual panel.