Method for compressing, slicing, and transmitting image files for display and interpretation

• US 10,275,425 B2
• Filed: 02/14/2018
• Issued: 04/30/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 02/14/2017
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Welllogdata Inc.
• Original Assignee: Henry Edward Kernan
• Inventors: Kernan, Henry Edward
• Primary Examiner(s): Huynh, Cong-Lac
• Application Number:
  US15/897,150
• Publication Number:
  US 20180232341A1
• Time in Patent Office: 440 Days
• Field of Search: 715273, 715255
• CPC Class Codes: E21B 41/00 Equipment or details not covered by groups E21B15/00 - E21B40/00
• CPC Class Codes: G01V 2210/74 Visualisation of seismic data
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/51 Indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0483 Interaction with page-structured environments, e.g. book metaphor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04845 for image manipulation, e.g. dragging, rotation, expansion or change of colour
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04855 Interaction with scrollbars
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/106 Display of layout of documents; Previewing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/169 Annotation, e.g. comment data or footnotes
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 1/00 General purpose image data processing

Abstract

A method and system for dividing up large image files, for example, a subsurface wellbore log, into smaller files or slices for faster analysis and for faster transmission. The transmission and analysis can be performed over a network system for display to a user to perform data interpretation, such as geological interpretations. The side by side comparison can be individually controlled and analyzed as well as synchronized manually for comparison. The data from one or multiple different logs can be viewed side by side as smaller slices of the whole while being able to independently vary the view depth of the data from each wellbore by scrolling. Well tops, and other subsurface data, can be interpreted and shown in the well log image with associated depth registration.

Claims

1. A method for dividing each of large images of well data into smaller slices for viewing comprising:

a. establishing a number of the smaller slices that each of the large images of well data will be divided into, represented by a whole number wherein the whole number is selected from the group consisting of division by a fixed height, division by a fixed width, division by a variable height, division by a variable width, and any combination thereof, of the large image of each well data;

b. storing with a repeatable pattern the smaller slices wherein, the smaller slices reference positions of the smaller slices in the large image of each well data;

c. recording a total of the number of the smaller slices for the large image of each well data along with a file name, wherein the file name represents the position of each of smaller slices in the large image of each well data;

d. identifying, by a user, a plurality of large images of wells the user desires to view in the viewport;

e. transmitting the plurality of large images of wells identified to a viewport; and

f. rebuilding, using a script, each of the identified large images of wells that uses the repeatable pattern established during storing, and loading of each rebuilt large image synchronously for viewing in the viewport wherein the smaller slices being in the viewport are accessible faster than an entire large image.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the viewport comprises a map with well locations, a search with filters, and a request to access a database of well spots.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the plurality of large images associated with wellbores are loaded into separate divisions, further comprising:

a. labelling tabs that indicate divisions of each of the large images of well data, and

b. providing an ability for the user to switch between tabs.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein images that are next to each other can be individually scrolled and synchronously scrolled, further comprising

a. a scroll bar for each wellbore image;

b. an identifier that indicates the user wants to scroll the images together; and

c. an additional script that recognizes what images are being scrolled and adjusts their height in the viewport accordingly as scrolling occurs.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the large image represents well log data and the user can click on an image and generate a geologic marker, further comprising:

a. creating an editable label for the geological marker

b. inputting the depth of the geological marker; and

c. providing the user an ability to move and delete the geological marker from the large image.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the plurality of large images being displayed represents a cross-section identified on the map, further comprising:

using a differentiating symbol for wells on the cross-section from wells not on the cross-section and creating a line connecting the cross-section wells.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein any well can be added and removed from the cross-section view and line, further comprising:

clicking a symbol wherein the user performs a script to remove the well from the cross-section viewport and a collection of cross-section wells represented on the map.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the wells on the cross-section can be organized by their locations and their at least one additional property, further comprising:

a. creating a dropdown menu with an indication of how the wells will be organized;

b. creating a script that performs a reorganization of the wells by identifying their locations and their at least one additional property; and

c. creating a script rearranging large images of well data representing the wells in the cross-section viewport.

9. The method of claim 8 wherein the at least one additional property represents a cardinal direction of the line on the map.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein more than one identified images of wells are selected by the user to view side by side in the viewport.

11. A method of geological interpretation, comprising:

a. storing on a database, data from a plurality of wells, wherein each well is represented by a large image and the large image is divided into smaller slices;

b. picking at least two wells on a map;

c. returning from the database a plurality of smaller slices for the large image associated with any of the well chosen;

d. outputting at least one slice representing a portion of the large image for any of the wells chosen to be viewed in the viewport;

e. displaying images of the plurality of smaller slices synchronously wherein a top of well log is visible quickly as lower portions of the large image are loaded; and

f. interpreting the images.

12. The method of claim 11 wherein a geological interception is used for locating and producing subterranean hydrocarbons.

13. The method of claim 12, further comprising:

using a script for rebuilding the large image that uses the repeatable pattern established during storage and loading of each large image synchronously wherein the smaller slices being viewed in the viewport are accessible faster than the entire large image.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the plurality of large images associated with wellbores are loaded into separate division, further comprising:

a. labelling tabs that indicates divisions of each of the large images of well data, and

b. providing an ability for the user to switch between tabs.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein images that are next to each other can be individually scrolled and synchronously scrolled, further comprising

a. a scroll bar for each wellbore image;

b. an identifier that indicates the user wants to scroll the images together; and

c. an additional script that recognizes what images are being scrolled and adjusts their height in the viewport accordingly as scrolling occurs.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the large image represents well log data and the user can click on an image and generate a geologic marker, further comprising:

a. Creating an editable label for the geological marker;

b. inputting the depth of the geological marker; and

c. providing the user an ability to move and delete the geological marker from the large image.

17. A system for dividing each of large images of well data into smaller slices for viewing comprising a computer for running a program to perform the following steps:

a. establishing a number of the smaller slices that each of the large images of well data will be divided into, represented by a whole number wherein the whole number is selected from the group consisting of division by a fixed height, division by a fixed width, division by a variable height, division by a variable width, and any combination thereof, of the large image of each well data;

b. storing with a repeatable pattern the smaller slices wherein, the smaller slices reference positions of the smaller slices in the large image of each well;

c. recording a total of the number of the number smaller slices for the large image along with a file name, wherein the file name represents the position of each of smaller slices in the large image of each well;

d. identifying, by a user, a plurality of large images of wells the user desires to view in the viewport;

e. transmitting the plurality of large images of wells identified to a viewport; and

f. rebuilding, using a script, each of the identified large images of wells that uses the repeatable pattern established during storing, and loading of each rebuilt large image synchronously for viewing in the viewport wherein the smaller slices being in the viewport are accessible faster than an entire large image.

18. The system of claim 17, wherein the viewport comprises a map with identified well spots, a search with filters, and a request to access a database of well spots in some other format.

19. The system of claim 17, wherein the computer is a server and the electronic device used by the user is connected to the server and wherein the computer and the electronic device are connected to a network.

20. The system of claim 17, wherein the identified large images of wells represent unrelated well images the user desires to view side by side in the viewport.