Patent ID: 8380573

Claim:
An automated teller system for processing documents including checks and currency bills, the automated teller system comprising: an imaging sensor; a discrimination unit including one or more sensors; a transport system configured to convey checks past the imaging sensor and to convey currency bills past the one or more sensors for the discrimination unit, the imaging sensor configured to generate image data representing an image of at least a portion of each passing check, the one or more sensors of the discrimination unit configured to generate denomination and authentication data for determining a denomination and authenticity of each passing currency bill; and one or more processors configured to control actuation of the transport system, extract amount and account number information from the image data of the conveyed checks, determine denominations and authenticate the conveyed currency bills from the denomination an authentication data, determine a total value of the conveyed checks and currency bills, the total value based on the extracted amount from the image data of the conveyed checks and the determined denomination of the conveyed currency bills, control communication of the check image data through a communications port associated with a network, and transfer a value relating to the total value through the communications port.