Hitachi, Ltd.

Kanzen Gotou

Rie Kawai

Hiroya Onimaru

Ikuyo Oda

Tazunu Yuhara

Shinichi Tomita

Makoto Shinohara

Susuma Ohba

An automated teller machine provided with a plurality of input means and a corresponding method for conducting transactions using this machine. In the machine, a touch sensor for producing a signal when a user touches a previously registered area with a finger and a character recognition sensor for recognizing characters drawn on another previously registered area are superposed on a display. The sensor to be operated is selected in accordance with input data, the kind of transaction and/or user's preference. Thus, the data can be input in a manner which provides the easiest and most efficient mode of use for the user.

Automated teller machine

A data input system of a multi-window mode in which a plurality of logic pictures can be displayed on a physical image screen of a CRT display. An input data once stored in a specified area of a memory is displayed in a selected one of the logical pictures. The system includes at least one logic picture designating device equipped with an indicator lamp, and transfer keys for designating one of the display fields in the logic picture. In accordance with combinations of designation and non-designation of the logic pictures, a data input path of the stored input data to the logic picture in which cursor is present or the logic picture in which cursor is absent is exchangeably selected, whereby the data stored in the specified memory area is transferred for display to the field designated by the transfer key in the selected picture through the input path as established.

Data input apparatus

A transaction processing system applicable to an automatic transaction machine such as an automatic cash dispenser or an automatic cash deposit machine which can automatically carry out transactions such as cash dispensing, balance check and depositing by an operation of an operator is disclosed. An initial operation direction is first displayed. If the initial operation in accordance with the other processing procedure is conducted by the operator, the processing is executed in the other processing procedure.

Transaction processing system

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