Electronic transaction apparatus

• US 6,135,351 A
• Filed: 06/08/1999
• Issued: 10/24/2000
• Est. Priority Date: 11/09/1998
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Niwata, Tsuyoshi, Hashimoto, Shigeru, Shiobara, Tomomi
• Primary Examiner(s): Le, Thien M.
• Assistant Examiner(s): St. Cyr, Daniel
• Application Number:
  US09/327,571
• Time in Patent Office: 504 Days
• Field of Search: 235/380, 235/379, 235/375, 235/382.5, 235/472.01
• US Class Current: 235/380
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 7/0866 by active credit-cards adapted therefor G07F7/1008 takes precedence

Abstract

An electronic transaction apparatus (e.g., an electronic money terminal) for processing a transaction engaged in by parties facing each other during which one party (a customer) confirms transaction information entered by the other party (a waiter), the direction in which the transaction information is displayed on a display unit of the apparatus is automatically reversed. As a result, the screen display can be directed towards the party (the customer) who must confirm transaction information without the electronic transaction apparatus being physically reversed.

Claims

1. An electronic transaction apparatus for processing a plurality of processes to perform a transaction between a first party and a second party comprising:

a first operating unit for entering a first transaction information by the first party;

a display unit for displaying the first transaction information entered at the first operating unit toward the first party; and

a control unit for controlling the display unit for displaying a confirmation information toward the second party for confirming the first transaction information at the process of confirming the first transaction information by the second party.

2. The electronic transaction apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the control unit controls the display direction of the display unit toward the first party, after entering a second transaction information by the second party at the process of confirming.

3. The electronic transaction apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a second operating unit for entering a second transaction information by the second party at the process of confirming, and

the second operating unit and the first operating unit are positioned facing each other.

4. The electronic transaction apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the transaction is a money transaction in which the second party pays money to the first party, and the transaction information is a transaction price.

5. An electronic transaction apparatus for processing a plurality of processes to perform a transaction between a first party and a second party comprising:

a display unit for displaying information corresponding to a first operation by the first party toward the first party; and

a control unit for controlling display direction of the display unit toward the second party for displaying a confirmation information for confirming the first operation at a process of a response operation to the first operation by the second party, the response operation being for confirming the first operation, and for keeping the display direction toward the first party at the process of the response operation, the response operation not being for confirming the first operation.

6. An electronic transaction apparatus for processing a plurality of processes to perform a transaction between a first party and a second party comprising:

a first operating unit for a first operation by the first party;

a second operating unit for a confirmation operation by the second party to the first operation;

a display unit for displaying information corresponding to the first operation toward the first party; and

a control unit for controlling display direction of the display unit toward the second party for displaying information on the display unit at the process of a response operation by the second party to the first operation, the response operation being entered from the second operation unit, and for keeping the display direction toward the first party at the process of the response operation, the response operation being entered from the first operation unit.

7. An electric transaction apparatus for processing a plurality of processes to perform a transaction between a first party and a second party comprising:

a first operating unit operated by the first party;

a second operating unit operated by the second party;

a display unit for displaying information concerning the processes, said first operating unit and said second operating unit being facing each other across said display unit; and

a control unit for controlling a displaying direction of said display unit toward the first party at the process operated by the first party, and controlling the displaying direction toward the second party at the process operated by the second party.

8. The electronic transaction apparatus according to claim 7, wherein said first operating unit includes keys for entering numbers, said second operating unit includes keys for confirming the numbers entered from said first operating unit.

9. The electronic transaction apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the keys in said second operating unit are a key for approval and a key for disapproval.

10. The electronic transaction apparatus according to claim 7, further comprising:

a card slot at the side of said first operating unit.

11. An electronic transaction apparatus for processing a plurality of processes to perform a transaction between a first party and a second party comprising:

a display unit; and

a control unit for controlling a displaying direction of said display unit;

wherein said control unit distinguishes each of the processes based on information entered corresponding to each of the processes, and reverses the displaying direction according to the result of the distinction.

12. The electronic transaction apparatus according to claim 11, wherein said control unit distinguishes the next process based on the entered information, and reverses the displaying direction toward the second party from the first party in case that the next process is for the second party to enter for confirmation of the information entered by the first party.

13. The electronic transaction apparatus according to claim 12, wherein said control unit leaves the displaying direction toward the first party in case that the next process is for second party to enter numbers.

14. The electronic transaction apparatus according to claim 12, wherein said control unit return the displaying direction toward the first party after entering for the confirmation by second party.