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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 01, 2015
Filed:
Aug. 15, 2013
Xerox Corporation, Norwalk, CT (US);
Zhigang Fan, Webster, NY (US);
Subarna Ghosh, Williamsville, NY (US);
Hengzhou Ding, San Diego, CA (US);
Xerox Corporation, Norwalk, CT (US);
Abstract
A method of estimating one or more dimensions of a patch panel may include receiving an image of a patch panel that comprises a plurality of ports and one or more gaps, extracting, by a computing device, a region of interest from the received image, detecting, by the computing device, one or more line segments from the region of interest, determining whether one or more candidate ports can be identified based on at least a portion of the line segments, and in response to determining that one or more candidate ports can be identified, identifying one or more candidate ports, and determining, by the computing device, a gap length associated with the identified candidate ports.