Patent ID: 7822673

Claim:
An automatic transaction apparatus, comprising: a customer operation display panel including a transaction screen displaying section for displaying a plurality of transaction screens each including necessary information for transactions in order and a reference information screen displaying section for displaying a plurality of reference information screens each including reference information except for the necessary information for transactions when the user operates said transaction screen displaying section to perform a transaction; a storage section storing data of the transaction screens, and a screen definition table on which a transaction screen address for accessing data of one of the transaction screens and a reference information screen address for accessing data of one of the reference information screens are arranged in association with each other; a transaction screen controller controlling changing the transaction screen by: referring to the screen definition table stored in said storage section, reading data of one of the transaction screens stored in said storage section using the transaction screen address being included in the screen definition table, and changing over the transaction screen to be displayed on said transaction screen displaying section; and a reference information screen controller independent of the transaction screen controller and controlling in an interlocking relationship with the controlling of changing the transaction screen by the transaction screen controller, changing of the reference information screen by: referring to the screen definition table stored in said storage section, acquiring data of one of the reference information screens using the reference information screen address included in the screen definition table, and changing the reference information screen to be displayed on said reference information screen displaying section wherein the transaction screen controller is in communication with a host computer through a first communication line and reads transaction screen related data to be displayed on said transaction screen displaying section, and the reference information screen controller is in communication with a server through a second communication line to be separate from the first communication line and acquires reference information screen related data to be displayed on said reference information screen displaying section.