Estimating inspection tool velocity and depth

    公开(公告)号:US11649715B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-05-16

    申请号:US16971931

    申请日:2019-02-04

    CPC分类号: E21B47/002 E21B47/04 G01P3/68

    摘要: A method for determining a corrected axial displacement parameter of a conduit inspection tool, in particular a downhole inspection tool, during transit of the tool axially along a conduit is disclosed. The tool used in the method has an imaging device and may be attached to a control module with a connecting line. The method comprises obtaining successive axially overlapping images of an internal wall of the conduit, determining, from the images, an observed axial displacement parameter of the tool as a function of transit time, identifying, in the images, a plurality of reference points, determining an estimated axial displacement parameter of the tool over an of transit time between successive reference points, and computing the corrected axial displacement parameter of the tool by applying a correction factor to the observed axial velocity of the tool.

    Quantitative surface measurements by combining image and height profile data

    公开(公告)号:US10885649B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-01-05

    申请号:US16307694

    申请日:2018-08-03

    IPC分类号: G06T7/55 G01B5/20

    摘要: A method of constructing a three-dimensional model of an internal surface of a tubular structure comprises obtaining image data from an area of the internal surface of the structure, obtaining measured height profile data from the internal surface in a plurality of sub-regions of the area, for example using a multi-finger caliper tool, determining image properties from the image data, correlating the measured height profile data with the image properties in the sub-regions, and constructing expected height profile data for at least part of the area outside the sub-regions using the correlated measured height profile data and image properties.