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Title:
SELF-SERVICE CHECKOUT TERMINAL WITH VOICE GENERATING DEVICE AND ITS OPERATING METHOD
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP2001266254
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:

To provide a retail sale terminal device which can promote operation by providing adequate indications and instructions without requiring any human assistance.

The retail sale terminal device, having a voice generating device, (a) operates the voice generating device to generate a 1st voice indication to a user as to the operation of the retail sale terminal device in a 1st voice type, (b) decides whether or not the user takes a 1st action indicating the user corresponding to the 1st voice indication on the retail sale terminal device and generates an adequate answer control signal according to the decision result, and (c) operates the voice generating device to generate a 2nd voice indication to the user as to the operation on the retail sale terminal device in a 2nd voice type on condition that the adequate answer control signal is not generated yet although a specific time is elapsed after the generation of the 1st voice indication.


Inventors:
WALTER JOANNE SYNOWSKY
Application Number:
JP2001001746A
Publication Date:
September 28, 2001
Filing Date:
January 09, 2001
Export Citation:
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Assignee:
NCR INT INC
International Classes:
A47F9/04; G06F3/16; G06Q20/20; G07G1/00; G07G1/01; G09B21/00; G10L13/00; G10L13/04; G10L13/08; (IPC1-7): G07G1/01; G06F3/16; G10L13/08; G10L13/00
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Yoshiaki Nishiyama