Cash accepting automated banking machine having user interface illumination devices

• US 7,677,444 B2
• Filed: 01/14/2008
• Issued: 03/16/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 12/19/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Diebold Nixdorf, Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Diebold Self-Service Systems (Diebold Nixdorf, Incorporated)
• Inventors: Booth, Jim, Utz, Zachary, Ramachandran, Natarajan, Turocy, Kenneth
• Primary Examiner(s): ST CYR, DANIEL
• Application Number:
  US12/008,791
• Publication Number:
  US 20080110976A1
• Time in Patent Office: 792 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

A banking system controlled by data bearing records. The system includes an automated banking machine (10) including a card reader (16) operative to read identifying data from user cards. The identifying data is used authorize operation of the automated banking machine. The banking machine includes a user interface (15). The user interface includes a card reader, 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 selective 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. At least one article including computer executable instructions operative to cause at least one computer of a cash accepting automated banking machine that includes each of a card reader device operative to read user card data corresponding to a financial account, a cash acceptor, a cash storage area, and a user interface comprising a multicolor light emitting device positioned adjacent to a cash receiving location, to carry out a method comprising:

(a) operating the multicolor light emitting device to output a first color during a cash accepting transaction;

(b) subsequent to step (a), operating the multicolor light emitting device to output a second color, wherein the second color differs from the first color; and

(c) subsequent to beginning step (b), operating the cash acceptor to move cash received from a machine user away from the cash receiving location toward the cash storage area.

2. The at least one article according to claim 1 wherein the multicolor light emitting device comprises a plurality of light emitting diodes (LEDs), and wherein both (a) and (b) include operating the LEDs in providing color output.

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

4. The at least one article according to claim 3 wherein the at least three different colors include red, yellow, and green, and wherein (a) includes outputting one of red, yellow, and green.

5. The at least one article according to claim 4 wherein the first color comprises green and the second color comprises yellow, wherein (a) includes outputting green, and wherein (b,) includes outputting yellow.

6. The at least one article according to claim 1 wherein user access to the cash receiving location is controlled by an access gate selectively movable between an open position and a closed position, wherein when the gate is in the open position a user is enabled to access the cash receiving location, wherein (a) includes outputting the first color with the access gate in the open position, and wherein (b) includes outputting the second color without the access gate in the open position.

7. The at least one article according to claim 6 wherein (c) includes operating the cash acceptor subsequent to beginning (b).

8. The at least one article according to claim 1 wherein the cash accepting transaction comprises a cash depositing transaction, wherein the cash receiving location is sized to hold a stack of cash, and wherein (c) includes removing from the cash receiving location a stack of cash provided by a machine user for deposit.

9. The at least one article according to claim 1 wherein (c) includes removing from the cash receiving location at least one financial check.

10. The at least one article according to claim 1 wherein the machine includes a cash dispenser, and the predetermined operations further comprise:

(d) operating the cash dispenser to dispense cash from the machine.

11. The at least one article according to claim 10 wherein the machine comprises a cash recycling machine, and wherein (d) includes operating the cash dispenser to dispense cash previously received by the machine from a machine user.

12. The at least one article according to claim 1 wherein (a) includes flashing the first color, and wherein (b) includes flashing the second color.

13. At least one article including computer executable instructions operative to cause at least one computer of a cash accepting automated banking machine that includes each of a card reader device operative to read user card data corresponding to a financial account, and a deposit placement opening in a fascia of the machine, to carry out a method comprising:

(a) operating the automated banking machine to cause output of a first color from a location adjacent the deposit placement opening, wherein the first color indicates that the deposit placement opening is accessible to receive a deposit from a machine user during a user deposit transaction;

(b) subsequent to (a), operating the machine to cause output of a second color from the location, wherein the second color indicates that the deposit placement opening is inaccessible to receive a deposit from the user, wherein the second color differs from the first color; and

(c) subsequent to (a), operating the machine to store in the machine at least one financial instrument sheet received at the deposit placement opening.

14. The at least one article according to claim 13 wherein (c) includes operating a deposit handling device in the machine to remove from the deposit placement area a user deposit received at the deposit placement area during (a), and wherein the user deposit includes at least one of a currency note and a financial check.

15. The at least one article according to claim 13 wherein the machine includes at least one multicolor light emitting device located adjacent the deposit placement area, wherein in (a) the at least one multicolor light emitting device causes the output of the first color, and wherein in (b) the at least one multicolor light emitting device causes the output of the second color.

16. The at least one article according to claim 15 wherein the multicolor light emitting device comprises a plurality of light emitting diodes (LEDs), and wherein both (a) and (b) include operating the LEDs in providing color output.

17. The at least one article according to claim 13 wherein user access to the deposit placement area is controlled by an access gate selectively movable between an open position and a closed position, wherein when the gate is in the open position a user is enabled to access the deposit placement area, wherein (a) includes outputting the first color while the access gate is in the open position, wherein (b) includes outputting the second color while the access gate is not in the open position, and wherein (c) occurs with the access gate in the closed position.

18. The at least one article according to claim 13, wherein (a) includes flashing the first color, and wherein (b) includes flashing the second color.

19. At least one article including computer executable instructions operative to cause at least one computer of a cash accepting automated banking machine that includes each of a card reader device operative to read user card data corresponding to a financial account, a deposit accepting devices and a user interface having an interface location where a machine user interacts with the deposit accepting device, to carry out a method comprising:

(a) operating the deposit accepting device of the automated banking machine in conducting a deposit transaction, wherein the operation causes a condition of the deposit accepting device to change; and

(b) changing a color output by each of at least one multicolor light emitting device positioned at the user interface, wherein the deposit accepting device is operative to store in the machine financial instruments received from a user at the interface location, and wherein the color is changed between at least two outputted colors responsive to the change in the condition.

20. The at least one article according to claim 19, wherein (b,) includes outputting a flashing first color then outputting a flashing second color, wherein the second color differs from the first color.