Patent ID: 11906283
Assignee: HELMERICH & PAYNE TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
Field: Civil engineering (Other fields)
Classification: CPC G  E | IPC E  G

Claim 12:
13. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium comprising a plurality of instructions executable by one or more processors, the instructions comprising instructions which, when executed on the one or more data processors, cause the one or more data processors to perform actions including:
acquiring visual data from at least one camera at a drill site, wherein the camera has a field of view comprising a space above a borehole of a well,
analyzing said visual data and detecting an object in the visual data as a drill pipe;
determining, responsive to the visual data, a diameter of the drill pipe;
determining, responsive to the diameter of the drill pipe, if a pre-determined condition has occurred; and
providing instructions to adjust or halt a drill pipe elevator operation or a roughneck operation upon determining that the pre-determined condition has occurred.