Automatic service equipment
AssigneeOki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.
InventorKunikazu Suzuki
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Abstract
Automatic service equipment is provided which is capable of providing easy and simple handleability to users with vision impairments in a cost-effective manner. A user with vision impairments can reach a handset by touching a tactile displaying (or information-presentation) section and by tracing a guide extending therefrom. The user can select a targeted operational device by touching the tactile displaying section in accordance with a voice guidance message provided by the handset and can reach a targeted operational device by tracing the guide.
Claims15
Automatic service equipment for providing a specified service to a user having a tactile sense, comprising:
- two or more operating sections for performing operations to render said service;
- tactile information-presentation sections, each of which is mounted on a portion of the automatic service equipment where the user can reach it at once, leaving a space from a corresponding one of said operating sections, to present information about operations at said corresponding operating section via the user's tactile sense;
- and
- guiding sections extending from said tactile information-presentation sections to said corresponding operating sections to guide the user's hand to each of said operating sections by the user's tactile sense,
- wherein the user can read information about the existence of each operating section at once by touching the corresponding tactile information-presentation section, and reach a desired operating section by tracing the guiding section with the user's fingertip.
Automatic service equipment for providing banking services to a user who has a tactile sense and who possesses a transaction card, comprising:
- first, second, and third ports, one of the ports being a card-handling port to receive the transaction card and another of the ports being a cash-handling port to dispense cash;
- first, second, and third Braille messages that are mounted on a portion of the automatic service equipment where the user can reach them at once, and that are spaced apart from the first, second, and third ports;
- a first tactile path extending from the first Braille message, guiding the user's hand to the first port by the user's tactile sense;
- a second tactile path extending from the second Braille message, guiding the user's hand to the second port by the user's tactile sense;
- and
- a third tactile path extending from the third Braille message, guiding the user's hand to the third port by the user's tactile sense,
- wherein the user can read information about the existence of each port at once by touching the corresponding Braille message, and reach any of the ports by tracing the respective path with the user's fingertip.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.