Registers – Systems controlled by data bearing records – Credit or identification card systems
Patent
1997-02-24
1999-04-20
Gross, Anita Pellman
Registers
Systems controlled by data bearing records
Credit or identification card systems
235379, G06F 1760, G06K 500
Patent
active
058959033
ABSTRACT:
An electronic wallet or terminal for a portable financial IC card having arrangements for versitle use by both visually-impaired and non-impaired persons. The electronic wallet or terminal is provided with a cabinet provided with a display, an IC card housing accommodating removable insertion of an IC card, and a privacy speaker and/or an earphone. Use of the privacy speaker or earphone accommodate visually impaired persons while affording financial confidentiality. Such terminal is programmed such that an appropriate language suited to an owner of the financial IC card or terminal is automatically determined (without user polling) from stored historical data such as a last financial transaction or personal data. The terminal is further provided with irregularities (e.g., ridges, depressions, protrusions, braille, etc) at appropriate locations on appropriate surfaces of a terminal and/or financial IC card for tactile determination via tactile feel (as opposed to visual determination) of both appropriate features and positioning of the terminal and whether or not an IC card is inserted in the terminal. The terminal also has a tapered, funnel-like guidance slot larger in dimensions than at least one of a thickness and width of an IC card, which is formed at an end of the terminal at the entrance to an IC card slot, such that the guidance slot accommodates easy/accurate insertion of the IC card into the terminal.
REFERENCES:
patent: 5436436 (1995-07-01), Matsukawa
Abe Yuhei
Ito Shigeyuki
Ohki Masayuki
Urushihara Atsuhiko
Cyr Daniel St.
Gross Anita Pellman
Hitachi , Ltd.
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