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

Claim 7:
8. A system for monitoring the flow of drilling mud from a wellbore, comprising:
a digital imaging device configured to capture images of drilling mud at a surface of the wellbore 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;
a computer system operatively coupled to the digital imaging device, the computer system comprising one or more processors and a computer-readable medium storing instructions executable by the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:
receiving the images captured by the digital imaging device; and
processing, by the one or more processors, 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, wherein processing the images comprises deploying a convolutional neural network (CNN) model that determines the rate of flow of the drilling mud through the one or more image capture zones using abstract features extracted from the images captured by the digital imaging device and 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.