Video conferencing innovation: 360-degree camera and meeting controller tablet from Thundercomm
Just when you thought video conference technology had hit a plateau, here comes Thundercomm with two reference designs built around Qualcomm Technologies’ system-on-chips (SoCs). If you are a developer or OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) working on devices for meeting rooms and virtual work, these are in your wheelhouse.
Blink360 Camera
The Blink360 Camera is designed to capture a 360-degree, panoramic image with video stitching, speaker-focus mode and auto-framing. As shown in the image below, it uses four cameras, each at 90 degrees around a cylindrical body:
It lets participants easily join meeting rooms in applications like Microsoft Teams, Zoom, Feishu, Tencent and DingTalk. It adapts to different meeting rooms by connecting to laptop computers, display hardware, video bars and the Meeting Controller Tablet (see below).
Built around the Qualcomm QCS6490, the Blink360 supports stitching of the four cameras to provide both a panoramic view and closeups of people’s faces using on-device AI. It offers people detection to track humans in the conference room, with direction-of-arrival tracking through three microphones (mic DOA) to follow the source of voices. Its motorless pan-tilt-zoom (ePTZ) camera centers on and magnifies human faces without movement of the camera lens.
Meeting Controller Tablet
The Meeting Controller Tablet is designed to facilitate content sharing and virtual meetings. It manages the devices typically found in rooms where video conferences take place. Through a wide variety of physical and logical interfaces (see image below), it links meeting room hardware in a single, intuitive controller. By including microphones, speakers, display output, USB Type-C video input and POE, the Meeting Controller Tablet integrates more functionality than ever before.
The controller is built around the Qualcomm QCS5430 SoC for productive, real-time collaboration in a video conference. It complements the hardware that participants use, including such devices as laptop computers, USB cameras (like the Blink360 Camera described above), external monitors and video bars.
The Meeting Controller Pad is a reference design engineered for communication with all peripherals in a meeting room. It simplifies the product development cycle and shortens time to market.
Next steps
The two reference designs are the result of a collaboration between Qualcomm Technologies and Thundercomm. They take advantage of jointly defined specifications and Thundercomm’s experience with Qualcomm Technologies’ technology to enhance the experience and productivity of video conferences. On the enterprise side, they fill broad market gaps for high-performance video conference hardware in small and medium-sized meeting scenarios. For developers and OEMs, they provide a point of departure for even more innovative products built around Qualcomm SoCs.
Learn more about the Blink360 Camera for Video Conference and about Qualcomm’s video collaboration technology.
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