Patent ID: 9626561
Date: 2017-04-18
CPC Classifications: G06F,G06K

Claim:
1. A method for connecting an electronic device using an eye tracking technique, the method comprising: acquiring eye-tracking information; obtaining image information corresponding to the eye-tracking information, the image information including at least two image regions, wherein each of the at least two image regions respectively relates to each of external devices and at least two of the external devices have a same appearance; comparing an image region of the at least two image regions with appearance information about at least one external device for determining whether the image region includes appearance of one of the external devices; based on the comparison, determining a specific external device to be connected to the electronic device among the at least two of the external devices; determining whether the specific external device is one of the at least two external devices having the same appearance based on the appearance information of each of the external devices; and requesting the specific external device to output a specific notification for distinguishing between the specific external device and other external devices, if the specific external device is one of the at least two external devices having the same appearance.