User transaction guidance
US4884199A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Mar 2, 1987 |
| Grant date | Nov 28, 1989 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Mar 2, 2007 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG07F19/201
- WIPO fieldControl
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
A user guidance display system provides an animated display of example action being entered into a displayed image of the machine, to show a self-service machine user how the machine is to be operated. The various graphic images which show the prospective user what to do are created on a personal computer, using any of the commercially available graphic design programs. The binary file provided by the design program is processed, to compress the file into a special form having reduced memory requirements and having synergism with the image-displaying apparatus so as to permit fast and low overhead display of each image. By displaying a base image comprised of a number of image fragments, the base image can be changed during the course of guiding a user through a transaction. Animation is provided by sequentially displaying a plurality of image fragments under control of an animation list which, in turn, controls a timer. In order to provide for the convenient combination of graphic images and text, each image fragment is referenced to a text character location. The picture fragments, after being compressed, are stored in a memory in the self-service transaction machine. Text and pi…
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