Patent ID: 6474547
Filing Date: 2002-11-05
Classification: G06Q,G07F,G09B

Abstract:
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.