Blink360 Camera for Video Conference

Blink360 Camera for Video Conference is 4-camera video conferencing hardware, which supports 360° panoramic image with Auto framing and Speaker focus mode. Track every face and follows every speaker. Easy to join meeting rooms such as Teams, Zoom, Lark, Tencent Meeting, DingTalk etc, and adapt to different meeting rooms by connecting with Meeting controller pad, Laptop, Display, Video/Sound bar w/ or w/o switch.

  • Based on QCS6490.
  • ID/MD design for final product.
  • SW on QCS LA3.1 baseline.

Applications:

Key Features

Video Stitching
Mic DOA
People Detection
ePTZ

4x 4K high quality wide view cameras: H120 FOV, Sony sensor IMX415
• Stitching algorithm: 360° stitched Pano video, everybody in the meeting room are the key participants.
• Free to adapt to customers’ own stitching algorithm. Showcase your own knowhow.

6x (3x) optional mic with DOA
• 3x Mic DOA from Qualcomm.
• 6x Mic DOA from Thundercomm.
• Free to adapt to customers’ own DOA algorithm.

Easy setup/connection
• Plug in power.
• Connect to Laptop or large screen.
• Start your meeting application: Teams or any other meeting applications.
• Switch modes by tapping the buttons on the Touch pad.

Rich scenarios
• Pano mode.
• ePTZ mode with people detection and speaker tracking.

AI director
• People detection: Qualcomm’s or TC’s optional people detection algorithm.

CMF

Name Finishing Surface treatment Material Color Remark
1 Camera Deco Matte Painting PC+ABS Silver Gray
2 Top housing Matte Painting PC+ABS Silver Gray
3 Speaker mesh Mesh
4 Bottom housing Matte Painting PC+ABS Silver Gray
5 Top case Light Raw material Acrylic Transparent Silk screen
6 Bottom case Matte Raw material Silicone Black

Hardware Architecture

Camera design

CMOS sensor IMX415:

• Image size Diagonal 6.4mm ½.8inch

• Resolution 3840*2160

• Cell size 1.45um

• HDR Multiple exposure, Digital overlap

Camera lens:

• Focal length 1.9mm±5%

• F No. 2.4

• Structure 3G5P

• FOV H120.3, V79.7, D130.3

 

• TV distortion -7.4%

• RI 47%

• Focus range 0.2m-inf

• CRA 13.5°

Specifications of the Blink360 Camera for Video Conference

Section Item Definition Comments
General Product type Video conference USB device for Host PC, Panoramic Camera+Audio all-in-one on table Product use case as attached picture
Key parts Core boards, 4K camera*4 ,Single 8W speaker unit, 6-MIC array module.
OS Android 13
ID/ME Form Dimension&Weight 1223g, Height 300mm, Diameter 90mm
Mechanical Form Cylinder or Square column Form
CMF Refer to ID
Core HW Chipset QCS6490 Thundercomm C6490 SOM
Memory uMCP 128GB UFS+6GB LPDDR4x Optional 128+8GB
PMU Chipset
WIF/BT WCN6856
Audio PA WSA8835
Camera SPEC Sensor IMX415, 1/2.8 inch , CMOS, 8.29 M pixel, 1.45um unit cell
Lens HFOV>120, VFOV>80, TV distortion lower than-7.5%, Fno>2.4
DOF 0.5m to inf
Single Output resolution 3840*2160@30fps
Stitching Output HFOV360, VFOV>60
Camera sync Support Frame sync, 2A sync output
Connectivity WIFI 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac/ax, dual band 2.4Ghz/5Ghz, 2*2 MU-MIMO
Bluetooth BT5.2
USB-C PC to device through one USB-C, support type C alt mode
Ethernet1 support 100/1000M ethernet Convert from PCIe
I/O Port USB Type C USB 3.0*1 device mode for PC connection
HDMI out HDMI 2.0 out*1 up to 1080P@60
Power port DC I/F,12V/3A
POE support*1
Debug port Support Uart to micro-USB only for debug
Encoding stream output(Panorama) 3840*576@30, 1920*288@30, Mjpeg, H.264
Cropping streams output 1280*720@30, 960*540@30, 640*360@30, H.264 Only For people tracking up to 4
Composite stream output 3840*2160@30, 1920*1080@30,Mjpeg, H.264
HDR NA
Auto exposure Support
AWB Support
Latency TBD
Audio processing Microphone 6-DMIC circular array, SNR>69dB,AOP>130dB, sensitivity>-36dB Top placement
Speaker Single mono full frequency range speaker, Max Output 95dB SPL @8.0W,0.5m, Frequency response 100 Hz-20 KHz, THD 1kHz < 2%, Sampling rate 48Khz, Bottom placement
ANS(Active Noise suppression) Support, suppress background noise and non-human noise
AEC(Acoustic Echo Cancelling) Support, speaker echo collection, full duplex talk
Sound localization 360 degree 2D-DOA , Within 5m distance
on/off control MIC mute
Others DC Power supply DC 12V, 3A (MAX) support OV, surge protection,
LED indicator RGB LED*1 on TOP
Antenna Internal Antennas for WIFI/BT
Buttons Mute button*1 on MIC board
Volume button*2
Function button*1
Reset *1 on main board
EDL switch*1
AI Video AI People detection with stitched image
Audio AI DOA supported for speaker’s orientation
Hybrid AI Speaker Tracking
AI mode Switch between People Framing mode and Speaker Mode
Video Video Source 4 MIPI camera 4K30 IFE x3 , IFE-lite + BPS x1
Stitching Stitching 4 4k30 camera input to 7680x1152@30fps as 360 panorama image, Output 7680x1152@30fps and 3840x576@30fps
Attendees cropping Cropping 4 attendees from stitched stream when people Framing mode
Speaker Zoom Zooming in for tracking speaker when Speaker mode
Encoding H264 and MJPEG
Video Sink Multi-stream output via multi standard UVC instances Panorama, Speaker tracking OR 4 attendees
IQ 2A Sync
Audio Audio Source 6 Mics OR 3 Mics for DOA and UAC output
UAC Speaker Device
Algorithm DOA, ANS, AEC, AGC
Audio Sink UAC mic device