Patent ID: 11867008
Assignee: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC E  G  H | IPC E  G  H

Claim 16:
17. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions executable by one or more processors to perform operations comprising:
receiving images of drilling mud at a surface of a wellbore captured by a digital imaging device as the drilling mud flows through one or more image capture zones of a circulation system configured to circulate drilling mud through the wellbore and a wellbore drilling assembly;
deploying a convolutional neural network (CNN) model to extract abstract features from the images captured by the digital imaging device;
receiving additional features that comprise one or more of drilling parameters of the wellbore drilling assembly, properties of the drilling mud, and the weight of drilling mud measured in the one or more image capture zones using one or more mass sensors;
concatenating the abstract features extracted by the CNN and the additional features; and
feeding the concatenated features as input to a regression model to determine the rate of flow of the drilling mud through the one or more image capture zones; and
processing the images captured by the digital imaging device to determine a rate of flow of the drilling mud through the one or more image capture zones.