Visually impaired customer activated terminal method and system

US5589855A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Transaction Technology, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Paul Blumstein · Lomita, US
• Randy Cole · Los Angeles, US
• James Cook · Tucson, US
• Ashwin Doshi · Cerritos, US
• Michael Grandcolas · Santa Monica, US
• Stephen M. Gryte · Los Angeles, US
• Frank McCallick · Ventura, US
• Marvin Moskowitz · Calabasas, US
• Howard A. Schechtman · Craydon Court, US
• Michael L. Sears · Lewisville, US
• Steve Shulman · West Hollywood, US
• Walter Greenberg · Rockville, US
• Patricia Millo · Great Neck, US
• Paul Sidikman · Livingston, US
• Alex J. Virnig · San Fernando, US
• Paul Witman · Simi Valley, US
• Valerie Fenster · New York, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 14, 1992
• Grant date: Dec 31, 1996
• Expiry date: Aug 14, 2012

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G09B21/006
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A method and system for entering numerical information in a manner that can be easily used by visually impaired individuals are disclosed. Using a touch screen display, for each digit of a multidigit number a first location on the screen is touched a number of times equal to the digit followed by touching a second location. Once all the digits have been entered, a third location is touched. This method allows for dividing the touch screen display into a small number of large area touch active regions, such as quadrants, thus reducing the accuracy required to enter a value since the large area quadrants are easily referenced to the screen boundaries. Further, audible cues are used to prompt the user as well as provide feedback.