Patent ID: 8120577

Claim:
A system for controlling a computer apparatus associated with a graphical display, the computer apparatus being adapted to present a respective on-screen representation of at least one GUI-component on the display, the system comprising; an eye-tracker system adapted to determine a user's point of regard on the display and in response to movement sequences of the point of regard over the display enter control commands into the computer apparatus, the eye-tracker system comprising a processing module adapted to produce graphical feedback information for presentation on the display to visually confirm any entered control commands, wherein the processing module is adapted to: investigate whether the movement sequence of the point of regard fulfills an activation criterion with respect to an activation zone for any of the at least one control command, and if such a criterion is found to be fulfilled; and present a data-manipulating window separate from and at a position relative to an active control object on the display such that a center point of the window is located within a relatively small offset distance from a center point of the active control object, the window comprising graphical information which symbolizes an activity portion of the display presently being the object of an eye-tracker-controlled entry of control commands, the window being presented such that the activity portion and the window do not overlap and are simultaneously visible on the display, and wherein the information in the data-manipulating window repeatedly updates in response to the eye-tracker-controlled entry of control commands.