Patent ID: 8453924

Claim:
A method carried out at least in part through use of a banking system apparatus comprising an automated banking machine that is operable to cause financial transfers responsive at least in part to data read from data bearing records, wherein the machine includes: at least one input device, wherein the at least one input device includes at least one data reader, wherein the at least one data reader is operative to read user data corresponding to a financial account, at least one output device, wherein the at least one output device includes a visual display, at least one transaction function device, wherein the at least one transaction function device includes at least one of a cash dispenser and a deposit accepting device, wherein the at least one transaction function device includes a sheet path, at least one terminal processor, wherein the at least one terminal processor is in operative connection with the at least one input device, the at least one output device, and the at least one transaction function device, wherein the at least one terminal processor is operative to cause the machine to operate to cause financial transfers involving accounts that correspond to user data read by the at least one data reader, an image sensor adjacent the sheet path, wherein the image sensor is operative to sense a sheet as the sheet moves in the sheet path, wherein the image sensor is operative to produce image data corresponding to a plurality of images of sheet surface features; at least one image data processor, wherein the at least one image data processor is in operative connection with the image sensor, wherein the method comprises: (a) operating the image sensor to produce image data corresponding to a plurality of images of surface features of a sheet as the sheet moves in the sheet path; (b) operating the at least one image data processor to receive image data produced in (a); (c) operating the at least one image data processor to identify from the image data received in (b), displacement of the surface features caused by movement of the sheet; and (d) operating the at least one image data processor, while the sheet is moving in the sheet path, and while the image sensor is sensing the sheet, to determine from the displacement identified in (c), current direction of sheet movement in the sheet path.