Automated transaction apparatus

• US 5,995,949 A
• Filed: 04/19/1995
• Issued: 11/30/1999
• Est. Priority Date: 04/22/1994
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Suzuki, Tomotaka, Morioka, Makoto, Shiota, Takuji
• Primary Examiner(s): Shankar, Vijay
• Application Number:
  US08/424,191
• Time in Patent Office: 1,686 Days
• Field of Search: 364/401 R, 364/408, 395/155, 395/156, 395/157, 395/160, 395/161, 395/235, 395/239, 395/242, 395/243, 395/338, 345/112, 345/157, 345/185, 345/352-356, 345/357, 345/338, 345/336, 345/337, 235/379, 235/380, 235/381, 705/35, 705/39, 705/42, 705/43
• US Class Current: 705/43
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/1085 involving automatic teller machines [ATMs]
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 19/20 Automatic teller machines [ATMs]
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 19/201 Accessories of ATMs

Abstract

A process controller controls the information display of a display device and performs a transaction procedure based on the information input from the input device via the input controller. The process controller has a group display unit. The group display unit previously groups display information to the screen of the display device based on an input made by a user via the input device and the internal state of the process controller for each associative information, and displays the display information on the screen of the display device group by group in a systematically organized form. The state of a transfer procedures is displayed by three general groups affixed with, for example, tabs, and an input format in the style of the image of a slip. This allows the user to easily grasp the operation state during operation and also presents a friendlier input style to the user.

Claims

1. An automated transaction apparatus, comprising:

a display device to display visual information;

a console to receive operator input;

a process controller to execute a transaction procedure and to detect a response time of an operator of said console in association with at least part of the visual information; and

a display controller to control said display device to display the visual information when the response time of the operator is less than a predetermined period of time and to display a detailed description of an executable operation when the response time of the operator exceeds the predetermined period of time.

2. The automated transaction apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein said display controller has a plurality of detailed levels for the detailed description, and

wherein said process controller instructs said display controller to control said display device to increase the detailed levels of the detailed description by one as the response time increases by multiples of the predetermined time.

3. An automated transaction apparatus, comprising:

a display device for displaying visual information;

a process controller for executing a transaction procedure;

a console to be operated by an operator to vary an internal state of said process controller;

a first display controller controlling said display device to display the visual information to show all operations to be operated at a time, and changing the visual information in accordance with operation results of said console by the operator;

a second display controller controlling said display device to display a detailed description of an executable operation at a time when no operation is performed for a predetermined time, in association with at least a part of the visual information of the executable operation;

a third display controller grouping previously the visual information based on an input made by the operator and the internal state of said process controller and controlling said display device to display the visual information group by group; and

a fourth display controller controlling said display device to display previously all input items and input areas associated with the input items based on the input made by the operator and the internal state of said process controller, and to display inputs by the operator one after another in the input areas.