Downhole Data Visualization Using Color Value Algorithm
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional data analysis software struggles to effectively visualize multidimensional data, such as compositional profiles of producing wells, beyond a few parameters, requiring expensive and complex parametric visualization software.
Innovation Solution
The implementation of a Color Value Algorithm (CVA) that consolidates multiple parameters into a single visualization value by varying color appearance properties like hue, saturation, and lightness, allowing for the display of additional parameters without adding dimensions, thereby simplifying data visualization.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If conventional data analysis software is used to visualize parameters, then the software is simple and easy to use, but it can only visualize a small number of parameters (three or four)
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple parameters (up to 10 parameters including depth, temperature, pressure, flow rate, etc.) into a single unified graph visualization. Instead of creating separate visualizations for each parameter, the invention merges them into one comprehensive graph where the y-axis represents depth and multiple parameters are plotted simultaneously with different markers and colors, resolving the contradiction between visualizing many parameters and maintaining software simplicity.
2Adaptability or versatility
If sophisticated parametric visualization software is used to visualize a large number of parameters, then the visualization capability is enhanced, but the software becomes very expensive to license and very difficult to comprehend
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the visualization into distinct components: depth is plotted on the y-axis, while different parameters (temperature, pressure, flow rate, etc.) are represented by different markers, colors, and line styles. This segmentation allows multiple parameters to be visualized simultaneously in a single graph without creating a complex parametric rendering system, making the visualization easy to comprehend while maintaining high adaptability.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a universal graph template that can accommodate multiple types of downhole parameters (temperature, pressure, flow rate, composition, etc.) using a single visualization framework. Different parameters are distinguished through standardized visual encodings (colors, markers, line styles) rather than requiring separate visualization systems, enhancing versatility while keeping the interface simple and easy to operate.
3Measurement precision
If each parameter is given its own dimension for visualization, then each parameter can be clearly represented, but it becomes impossible to display all required parameters simultaneously
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses the y-axis (depth dimension) as a common framework for all parameters, and then encodes different parameters through visual attributes such as color, marker shape, and line style. This approach allows multiple parameters to be displayed simultaneously along the same depth axis without requiring separate spatial dimensions for each parameter, resolving the contradiction between clear parameter representation and the ability to display many parameters.
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AI summary
A method, a non-transient computer readable medium containing instruction, and a computing system are provided. In one embodiment, the method includes steps of: (1) identifying an area in a graph using first and second parameters of multiple parameters; (2) consolidating other parameters of the multiple parameters that are associated with the area into a single visualization value; and (3) visualizing the area according to the single visualization value.