Abstract: Face-detection-based remote-control system and method and face-detection-based remote-controllable multimedia system are disclosed. The face-detection-based remote-control method includes the following steps. (a) By using a detection device, detection of at least one part of an existing face is made according to an operation mode of the multimedia system in order to output a face image signal. (b) According to the face image signal, analysis of at least the part of the existing face detected is performed to generate at least a characteristic parameter correspondingly. (c) Comparing at least the characteristic parameter to at least a conditional parameter is made to generate a comparison result, wherein the conditional parameter is associated with at least a control action of the operation mode. (d) According to the comparison result, at least an indication signal is generated to the multimedia system.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for generating a visualizing map of music in accordance with the identifiable features of the music. First, the music would be divided into plural segments, and the length of each segment is preferably identical. After that, an audio analysis is executed to determine the mood types of these segments. Each mood type may be determined by certain parameters, such as tempo value and articulation type. Besides, every mood type corresponds to a certain visualizing expression, and the correspondence can be defined in advance and looked up in a table for example. Eventually, the visualizing map of the music is generated according to the mood types and the distribution of visualizing expressions.

Abstract: With the method for generating a slide show in harmony with music, the user is able to compose an attractive and interesting slide show by a convenient and simple method. The steps of the method comprises: analyzing audio data to obtain reference points, wherein the reference points include at least one beat point of said audio data; obtaining image effects for images; selecting at least one first level point and at least one second level point from the reference points; and composing a slide show of the images with the image effects in association with the audio data, wherein the image effects are controlled according to the first level point and the displaying of the images is controlled according to the second level point.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for generating a slide show in harmony with music. With the method, the user is able to compose an attractive and interesting slide show by a convenient and simple method. The steps of the method comprises: analyzing audio data to obtain reference points, wherein the reference points include at least one beat point of said audio data; obtaining image effects for images; selecting at least one first level point and at least one second level point from the reference points; and composing a slide show of the images with the image effects in association with the audio data, wherein the image effects are controlled according to the first level point and the displaying of the images is controlled according to the second level point.

Abstract: A system for managing Java threads to decrease the time expended by a central processing unit executing any instructions that will manage threads. I/O operations are offloaded to a serial processor. General computing streams are primarily processed in parallel operations.