Automatic transaction machine

• US 4,593,183 A
• Filed: 05/04/1983
• Issued: 06/03/1986
• Est. Priority Date: 05/06/1982
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Tokyo Shibaura Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
• Original Assignee: Tokyo Shibaura Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
• Inventors: Fukatsu, Kunio
• Primary Examiner(s): Pitts, Harold I.
• Application Number:
  US06/491,646
• Time in Patent Office: 1,126 Days
• Field of Search: 194/26, 235/379, 221/1
• US Class Current: 235/379
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 19/20 Automatic teller machines [ATMs]
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 19/201 Accessories of ATMs

Abstract

An automatic transaction machine has a CRT display for selectively displaying Japanese and English operation guides, a voice synthesizer for selectively producing the corresponding audible Japanese and English operation guides, and a microcomputer for controlling these mechanisms. The CRT display displays different display contents at different display positions.

Claims

1. An automatic transaction machine, comprising:

a card reader for reading card information from a card;

a display for displaying operation instructions to a customer;

a voice output unit for producing a voice output which provides an operation guide for a customer;

a keyboard for entering information in accordance with the operation instructions;

a bill dispensing mechanism for dispensing a bank not corresponding to a specified amount;

a receipt issuing unit for printing a transaction content and for issuing a receipt on which the transaction content is printed;

controlling means connected to said card reader, said display, said keyboard, said bill dispensing unit, and said receipt issuing unit, said controlling means being adapted to control said voice output unit to receive the card information from said card reader, to be capable of producing the operation instructions to the customer in at least two languages, and to produce a voice output which provides an operation guide in a selected one of said at least two languages which is selected according to specified information, wherein said specified information are achieved from any one of said keyboard and said card reader; and

prohibiting means for prohibiting the operation guide produced by said voice output unit.

3. A machine according to claim 1, wherein said receipt issuing unit is controlled to print the transaction content in a selected one of said at least two languages which is selected according to the specified information.

4. A machine according to claim 1 wherein said display displays different display contents at different display positions.

5. A machine according to claim 1, further comprising a shutter, for covering said display and said keyboard, and a speaker.

6. A machine according to claim 1, further comprising means for specifying a language among said languages for the operation guide and provision or nonprovision of the operation guide by said voice output unit in accordance with a single operation.

7. A machine according to claim 1, wherein said controlling means comprises a microcomputer.

2. An automatic transaction machine, comprising

a card reader for reading card information from a card;

a display for displaying operation instructions to a customer;

a voice output unit for producing a voice output which provides an operation guide for a customer;

a keyboard for entering information in accordance with the operation instructions;

a bill dispensing mechanism for dispensing a bank not corresponding to a specified amount;

a receipt issuing unit for printing a transaction content and for issuing a receipt on which the transaction content is printed;

controlling means connected to said card reader, said display, said keyboard, said bill dispensing unit, and said receipt issuing uniit, said controlling means being adapted to control said voice output unit to receive the card information from said card reader, to be capable of producing the operation instructions to the customer in at least two languages, and to produce a voice output which provides an operation guide in a selected one of said at least two languages which is selected according to specified information, wherein said specified information are achieved either from said keyboard or from said card reader; and

means for specifying a language among said languages for the operation guide and provision or nonprovision of the operation guide by said voice output unit in accord-ance with a single operation.

8. A machine according to claim 2, wherein said receipt issuing unit is controlled to print the transaction content in a selected one of said at least two languages which is selected according to the specified information.

9. A machine according to claim 2, wherein said display displays different display contents at different display positions.

10. A machine according to claim 2, further comprising a shutter, for covering said display and said keyboard, and a speaker.

11. A machine according to claim 2, wherein said controlling means comprises a microcomputer.