Automated transaction apparatus

• US 5,650,605 A
• Filed: 05/01/1995
• Issued: 07/22/1997
• Est. Priority Date: 05/25/1994
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Suzuki, Tomotaka, Morioka, Makoto, Shiota, Takuji
• Primary Examiner(s): PITTS, HAROLD I
• Application Number:
  US08/432,263
• Time in Patent Office: 813 Days
• Field of Search: 235/379, 402/8
• US Class Current: 235/379
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 19/20 Automatic teller machines [ATMs]
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 19/201 Accessories of ATMs
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 7/10 together with a coded signal , e.g. in the form of personal identification information, like personal identification number [PIN] or biometric data
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 9/02 Devices for alarm or indication, e.g. when empty; Advertising arrangements in coin-freed apparatus alarms or warning devices indicating the interruption of flow to be metered G07F15/10

Abstract

A display device displays information. An input device inputs information about a transaction. An operation unit includes a selection requesting unit and a selection processor. The selection requesting unit requests a user to input information in an alternative style via the display device. The selection processor performs a predetermined process based on information, selectively input by the user through the display device and a selection input unit of the input device, and the internal state. A transaction processor performs a transactional process based on the transactional operation of the operation unit. The transaction processor communicates with a host system in a center to accomplish a transaction.

Claims

1. An automated transaction apparatus comprising:

a display device for displaying information;

an input device for inputting information associated with a transaction, said input device having a confirm key and a deny key;

operation processing means for controlling information displayed by said display device and executing a transactional operation based on a plurality of items of information input from said input device in association with said information display; and

transaction processing means for performing a transaction,

said operation processing means including;

selection requesting means for requesting user to input an item of information selected from among a plurality of items of information in an alternative style via said display device wherein, for each item of information required, one of the items of information is indicated as a selection target and the user uses said input device to confirm the selection target or deny the selection target, when the selection target is confirmed the selection target is inputted as an item of information and when the user denies the selection target another one of the items of information is indicated as the selection target for the user to confirm or deny, and

selection processing means for performing a predetermined process based on the items of information input by said user through said input device, and an internal state.

2. An automated transaction apparatus comprising:

a display device for displaying information;

an input device for inputting information associated with a transaction, said input device having a confirm key and a deny key;

operation processing means controlling information displayed by said display device and executing a transactional operation based on a plurality of items of information input from said input device in association with said information display; and

transaction processing means for performing a transaction,

said operation processing means including;

selection requesting means for requesting a user to input every item of information in an alternative style via said display device wherein, for each item of information required, one of the items of information is indicated as a selection target and the user uses said input device to confirm the selection target or deny the selection target, when the selection target is confirmed the selection target is inputted as an item of information and when the user denies the selection target another one of the items of information is indicated as the selection target for the user to confirm or deny, and

selection processing means for performing a predetermined process based on the items of information input by said user through said input device, and an internal state.

3. An automated transaction apparatus comprising:

a display device for displaying information;

an input device for inputting information associated with a transaction said input device having a confirm key and a deny key;

operation processing means for controlling information displayed by said display device and executing a transactional operation based on said information input from said input device in association with said information display; and

transaction processing means for performing a transaction,

said operation processing means including;

selection requesting means for requesting a user to input an item of information selected from among a plurality of items of information in an alternative style via said display device, wherein, for each item of information required, one of the items of information is indicated as a selection target and the user uses said input device to confirm the selection target or deny the selection target, when the selection target is confirmed the selection target is inputted as an item of information and when the user denies the selection target another one of the items of information is indicated as the selection target for the user to confirm or deny, and

selection processing means for performing a predetermined process based on the items of information input by said user through said input device, and an internal state,

said input device including selection input means for selecting one of two kinds of input styles including the alternative style.

4. An automated transaction apparatus comprising:

a display device for displaying information;

an input device for inputting information associated with a transaction said input device having a confirm key and a deny key;

operation processing means for controlling information displayed by said display device and executing a transactional operation based on a plurality of items of information input from said input device in association with said information display; and

transaction processing means for performing a transaction based on an operation of said operation processing means,

said operation processing means including;

selection requesting means for requesting a user to input an item of information selected from among a plurality of items of information in an alternative style via said display device, wherein, for each item of information required, one of the items of information is indicated as a selection target and the user uses said input device to confirm the selection target or deny the selection target, when the selection target is confirmed the selection target is inputted as an item of information and when the user denies the selection target another one of the items of information is indicated as the selection target for the user to confirm or deny,

selection processing means for performing a predetermined process based on the items of information input by said user through said input device, and an internal state,

information input processing means for performing an information input process in a style other than the alternative input style using said display device and said input device, and

operation selecting means for permitting said user to select the desired input style.

5. An automated transaction apparatus comprising:

a display device for displaying information;

an input device having a transparent switch placed over a display surface of said display device, said transparent switch having a confirm key and a deny key;

operation processing means for controlling information displayed by said display device and executing a transactional operation based on a plurality of items of information input from said switch in association with said information display; and

transaction processing means for performing a transaction,

said operation processing means including;

selection requesting means for requesting a user to input an item of information selected from among a plurality of items of information via said display device, wherein, for each item of information required, one of the items of information is indicated as a selection target and the user uses said input device to confirm the selection target or deny the selection target, when the selection target is confirmed the selection target is inputted as an item of information and when the user denies the selection target another one of the items of information is indicated as the selection target for the user to confirm or deny in an alternative style by a selective operation of two kinds of operation sections;

selection processing means for performing a predetermined process based on the items of information input by said user using said switch, and an internal state.