US 12,378,870 B2
Advanced optical imaging of tubulars
Timothy Luu, North Vancouver (CA); Graham Manders, North Vancouver (CA); and Damian Nesbitt, Vancouver (CA)
Assigned to DarkVision Technologies Inc., North Vancouver (CA)
Filed by DarkVision Technologies Inc., North Vancouver (CA)
Filed on Mar. 10, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/119,836.
Claims priority of application No. 2206695 (GB), filed on May 6, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0358131 A1, Nov. 9, 2023
Int. Cl. H04N 23/55 (2023.01); E21B 47/002 (2012.01); H04N 23/50 (2023.01)
CPC E21B 47/0025 (2020.05) [H04N 23/555 (2023.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of imaging a wellbore, comprising:
deploying a downhole imaging tool into the wellbore, the tool comprising:
an elongate pressure vessel;
illumination means;
an optical imaging sensor; and
a memory for storing images from the optical imaging sensor,
a telecentric lens optically coupled to the optical imaging sensor and optically directed outwards from the pressure vessel;
capturing images of the wellbore using the optical imaging sensor coupled to the telecentric lens; and
determining dimensions of a wellbore feature from a distance between pixels of that feature in the captured image.