BOE showcases a Qualcomm-powered video bar aimed at medium meeting spaces, blending a triple-lens AI camera block with integrated audio DSP so one device can handle framing, capture, and speaker playback in a single USB/HDMI-friendly package. The pitch is “broadcast-style” conferencing hardware—multi-camera optics plus on-device inference—without turning the room into a complicated install. https://www.boe.com/
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On the imaging side, the unit uses three lenses (wide + zoom views) and an ISP/NPU pipeline designed for intelligent crop, auto-framing, and “smart gallery” layouts that generate individual tiles for each person while keeping a room overview strip visible. The demo mentions up to three 48MP sensors and 4K60 capture capability, even though most mainstream meeting apps still cap uplink at 1080p today, which frames the hardware as future-ready for higher-fidelity workflows in a hybrid setup.
Audio is treated as a first-class signal chain: echo cancellation, noise reduction, and room-tuned playback via built-in speakers, aiming for intelligibility when the space gets noisy. This is the typical AEC/NS/AGC stack you’d expect in a conferencing appliance, but the interesting angle is how much can be moved onto the SoC’s AI engine for adaptive processing tied to visual context (who is speaking, where they sit) and for features like presenter/speaker tracking.
Connectivity includes dual HDMI 2.0 outputs plus HDMI input, with the option to add an extra external camera and support multi-screen layouts; the conversation also explores the idea of multiple bars collaborating across a larger room, which would require tighter device synchronization and a multi-node AV architecture. Filmed at ISE 2026 in Barcelona, the discussion leans into what happens when room devices become edge compute nodes: people counting, behavior analytics, and local policy-driven processing rather than sending everything to cloud.
A practical near-term idea is using on-device super-resolution: receive a 1080p conference stream, then upscale locally to a sharper 4K presentation for the in-room display—separating “transport resolution” from “display resolution” with an AI enhancement stage. They also touch on offline translation (ASR + MT on the NPU) and meeting summaries, noting that larger language-model summarization still tends to live in cloud today, but the direction is clear as edge TOPS budgets keep rising.
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BOE video bar on Qualcomm: 3-camera optics, AEC/NR audio DSP, people crop, room view
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