Cash dispensing automated banking machine with user interface illumination devices

• US 7,131,576 B2
• Filed: 12/17/2003
• Issued: 11/07/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 12/19/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Diebold Nixdorf, Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Diebold Incorporated (Diebold Nixdorf, Incorporated)
• Inventors: Utz, Zachary, Ramachandran, Natarajan, Turocy, Kenneth, Booth, Jim
• Primary Examiner(s): ST CYR, DANIEL
• Application Number:
  US10/738,462
• Publication Number:
  US 20040226991A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,056 Days
• Field of Search: 235/379, 235/380, 235/382, 235/385
• 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 19/205 Housing aspects of ATMs

Abstract

An automated banking machine (10) includes a user interface (15). The user interface includes a card reader (16), receipt printer opening (30), cash dispensing opening (38) and deposit accepting opening (40). Multicolor light emitting devices (17, 31, 41, 43) are adjacent to and associated with a respective location where a user interacts with a particular transaction function device of the machine. One or more machine controllers (64) are selectively programmed to control the output color and duration of each light emitting device responsive to programming associated with the controller and an operative condition of the associated transaction function device.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

(a) operating a cash dispenser in an automated banking machine during a cash dispensing transaction to move cash toward and present the cash at a cash receiving location accessible by a machine user;

(b) responsive to the cash dispenser moving the cash toward the cash receiving location in step (a), operating a multicolor light emitting device at a user interface of the machine adjacent to the cash receiving location to output a first color; and

(c) responsive to the cash dispenser presenting the cash at the cash receiving location in step (a), operating the multicolor light emitting device to output a second color, wherein the first color differs from the second color.

2. The method according to claim 1 wherein the first color comprises yellow and the second color comprises green wherein (b) includes outputting yellow, and wherein (c) includes outputting green.

3. The method according to claim 1 wherein the multicolor light emitting device is operative to output at least three different colors, wherein (b) includes outputting one of the three colors, and wherein (c) includes outputting another of the three colors.

4. The method according to claim 3 wherein the at least three output colors include red, yellow and green.

5. The method according to claim 1 wherein the first multicolor light emitting device comprises an array of light emitting diodes (LEDs), and wherein (b) and (c) include operating the LEDs in providing color output.

6. The method according to claim 5 wherein the array of LEDs is supported on a flexible web, and prior to (a) further comprising:

(d) attaching the flexible web adjacent to the cash receiving location.

7. The method according to claim 6 wherein the flexible web has an adhesive layer in supporting connection therewith, and wherein (d) includes attaching the flexible web via the adhesive layer.

8. At least one article including computer readable media operative to cause at least one computer in an automated banking machine to carry out the method according to claim 1.

9. A method comprising:

(a) operating a first transaction function device of an automated banking machine in conducting a transaction, wherein the machine includes a cash dispenser, and wherein such operation causes at least one first condition of the first transaction function device to change;

(b) changing a color output by a first multicolor light emitting device at a user interface of the machine adjacent to a first location where a user interacts with the first transaction function device, between at least two output colors responsive to the change in the at least one first condition,

wherein the first multicolor light emitting device comprises an array of LEDs, wherein (b) includes changing the LEDs providing color output,

wherein the array comprises a first line comprising a plurality of LEDs having only a first output color, and wherein (b) further includes illuminating the LEDs in the first line.

10. The method according to claim 9 wherein the array comprises a second line, wherein the second line comprises a plurality of LEDs having only a second output color, and wherein (b) comprises illuminating the LEDs in the second line.

11. The method according to claim 10 wherein the first line and the second line each extend generally vertically, and wherein in (b) the LEDs in the first line are illuminated during a first time period, and the LEDs in the second line are eliminated during a time period other than the first Lime period.

12. A method comprising:

(a) operating a first transaction function device of an automated banking machine in conducting a transaction, wherein the machine includes a cash dispenser, and wherein such operation causes at least one first condition of the first transaction function device to change;

(b) changing a color output by a first multicolor light emitting device at a user interface of the machine adjacent to a first location where a user interacts with the first transaction function device, between at least two output colors responsive to the change in the at least one first condition,

wherein the first multicolor light emitting device comprises an array of LEDs,

wherein (b) includes changing the LEDs providing color output;

wherein the first transaction function device is movably mounted relative to the machine, and wherein the user interface includes an opening adjacent the first location, and wherein the array is in supporting connection with the first transaction function device, and prior to (a) further comprising;

(c) moving the first transaction function device relative to the machine so that the array is viewable through the opening.

13. A method comprising:

(a) operating a first transaction function device of an automated banking machine in conducting a transaction, wherein the machine includes a cash dispenser, and wherein such operation causes at least one first condition of the first transaction function device to change;

(b) changing a color output by a first multicolor light emitting device at a user interface of the machine adjacent to a first location where a user interacts with the first transaction function device, between at least two output colors responsive to the change in the at least one first condition, wherein the user interface includes a first fascia color, and wherein at least one of the at least two output colors corresponds to the first fascia color.

14. A method comprising:

(a) operating a card reader of an automated banking machine to read a user card, wherein the machine includes a cash dispenser;

(b) operating a multicolor light emitting device to output a first color prior to the card being positioned to enable reading thereof by the card reader in step (a), wherein the multicolor light emitting device is at a user interface of the machine adjacent to the card reader; and

(c) subsequent to step (b), operating the multicolor light emitting device to output a second color subsequent to the card being positioned to enable reading thereof by the card reader, wherein the first color differs from the second color.

15. The method according to claim 14 wherein the first color comprises green and the second color comprises yellow, wherein (b) includes outputting green, and wherein (c) includes outputting yellow.

16. The method according to claim 14 wherein the multicolor light emitting device comprises an array of light emitting diodes (LEDs), and wherein (b) and (c) include operating the LEDs in providing color output.

17. The method according to claim 14 wherein the multicolor light emitting device is operative to output at least three different colors, wherein (b) includes outputting one of the three colors, and wherein (c) includes outputting another of the three colors.

18. The method according to claim 17 wherein the at least three output colors include red, yellow and green.

19. At least one article including computer readable media operative to cause at least one computer in an automated banking machine to carry out the method according to claim 14.