Interactive intelligent interface

• US 5,201,034 A
• Filed: 03/24/1992
• Issued: 04/06/1993
• Est. Priority Date: 09/30/1988
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Hitachi Information & Control Systems Incorporated, Hitachi, Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hitachi Information & Control Systems Incorporated, Hitachi, Ltd.
• Inventors: Wada, Shinobu, Yamanaka, Akito, Suzuki, Yasuo, Ogura, Hiroyuki, Mori, Kinji, Kawano, Katsumi, Orimo, Masayuki, Matsuura, Masayoshi, Teranishi, Yuko
• Primary Examiner(s): Herndon, Heather R.
• Application Number:
  US07/856,804
• Time in Patent Office: 378 Days
• Field of Search: 395/155-161, 395/156, 434/307, 434/316
• US Class Current: 715/865
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/453 Help systems
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 19/20 Automatic teller machines [ATMs]
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 19/201 Accessories of ATMs
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 715/978 Audio interaction as part of an operator interface

Abstract

An interactive intelligent interface in a system which performs an interactive processing making the system recognize the capacity of a user of the system. The system has a function of providing a processing method conformable to the recognized capacity of the system user, whereby a processing method to be performed by the system is changed in accordance with the operating or processing capacity of the system user so that a procedure desired by the system user can be performed irrespective of the operating or processing capacity of the system user.

Claims

1. An interactive intelligent interface for effectively exchanging information between a system and a physically impaired user whose physical impairment otherwise precludes an ability to exchange information with the system, comprising:

means for measuring the extent of impairment of the user of the system;

means for estimating an operating capacity of the user to communicably exchange information with the system on the basis of the measured extent of impairment;

a plurality of means for outputting to the user information from the system;

a plurality of means for inputting to the system information from the user; and

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means for selecting a one of the plurality of outputting means and a one of the plurality of inputting means in accordance with the estimated capacity of the user to communicably exchange information.

2. The interactive intelligent interface according to claim 1, wherein the means for measuring the extent of impairment of the user comprises a predetermined medium.

3. The interactive intelligent interface according to claim 1, wherein the means for measuring the extent of impairment includes means for transmitting visual information.

4. The interactive intelligent interface according to claim 3, wherein the means for transmitting visual information comprises a display screen on which a symbol size is gradually increased.

5. An interactive intelligent interface according to claim 3, wherein the second kind of information is imparted by displaying a series of symbols in a visual acuity testing table on a display screen.

6. The interactive intelligent interface according to claim 1, wherein the means for measuring the extent of impairment includes means for transmitting auditory information.

7. An interactive intelligent interface according to claim 6, wherein the second kind of information is imparted by a sound the volume of which is gradually enhanced.

8. The interactive intelligent interface according to claim 1, wherein the means for measuring the extent of impairment comprises an input to a touch sensor.

9. An interactive intelligent interface according to claim 1, wherein the second kind of information is imparted by the absence of an input for a predetermined period of time.

10. The interactive intelligent interface according to claim 1, wherein the means for measuring the extent of impairment comprises an input to a handy stick transducer.

11. The interactive intelligent interface according to claim 1, wherein one of the plurality of outputting means includes means for transmitting visual information.

12. The interactive intelligent interface according to claim 11, wherein one of the plurality of outputting means include means for freezing a symbol imaged on the transmitting means.

13. The interactive intelligent interface according to claim 11, wherein a one of the plurality of outputting means include selection means for selecting a symbol from a visual acuity testing table.

14. The interactive intelligent interface according to claim 1, wherein a one of the plurality of outputting means includes means for transmitting auditory information.

15. The interactive intelligent interface according to claim 14, wherein said one of the plurality of outputting means includes means for detecting a change-over from visual information transmission to auditory information transmission.

16. The interactive intelligent interface according to claim 14, wherein said one of the plurality of outputting means includes means for sound volume selection.

17. An interactive intelligent interface between a user and an interactive system for exchanging information concerning an operation to be conducted, comprising:

plural kinds of outputting means for providing plural kinds of outputted information to the user;

plural kinds of inputting means for inputting a response of the user to outputted information from said outputting means;

means for estimating a capacity of the user to operate the system on a basis of the response of the user to said outputted information, said estimating means including;

means for providing to the user at least one of the plural kinds of outputted information through at least one of said outputting means,

means for receiving a response of the user through at least one of said inputting means, and

means for selectively changing from the at least one of said outputting means and/or the at least one of said inputting means to another one of said outputting means and/or another one of said inputting means in response to said response of the user; and

means for selecting a successful one of said outputting means and a successful one of said inputting means to communicably exchange information between the system and user on the basis of the estimated capacity of the user.

18. An interactive intelligent interface for effectively exchanging information between a system and a physically impaired or inexperienced user whose inexperience otherwise precludes an ability to exchange information with the system, comprising:

means for measuring an extent of inexperience of the user of the system;

means for estimating an operating capacity of the user to communicably exchange information with the system on the basis of the measured extent of inexperience;

a plurality of means for outputting to the user information from the system;

a plurality of means for inputting to the system information from the user;

means for selecting one of the plurality of inputting means in accordance with the estimated capacity of the user to communicably exchange information.

19. The interactive intelligent interface of claim 18 further comprising means for selecting one of the plurality of outputting means in accordance with the estimated capacity of the user to communicably exchange information.