Patent ID: 8002176

Claim:
Apparatus comprising: an automated banking machine operated responsive to data read from data bearing records, including: a housing; a card reader in operatively supported connection with the housing, wherein the card reader is operative to read data from user cards corresponding to financial accounts; a cash dispenser in operatively supported connection with the housing; a user interface in operatively supported connection with the housing, the user interface including at least one input device, wherein the at least one input device includes the card reader, and at least one output device; a user transaction location on the machine, wherein at the user transaction location, at least one of user inputs are provided to the machine and items are input to or received from the machine; at least one radiation output device on the machine wherein the at least one radiation output device is adjacent the transaction location; at least one radiation sensing device on the machine, wherein the at least one radiation sensing device is adjacent the transaction location; banking machine control circuitry, wherein the banking machine control circuitry includes at least one processor, wherein the banking machine control circuitry is in operative connection with the at least one radiation output device and the at least one radiation sensing device, wherein the banking machine control circuitry is operative to cause the at least one radiation output device to output radiation intermittently, and wherein the banking machine control circuitry is operative responsive to radiation sensed by the at least one radiation sensing device to determine at least one value corresponding to radiation sensed only while the at least one radiation output device is operating to output radiation, and to cause the at least one value to be compared to at least one threshold, and to cause the automated banking machine to take at least one action responsive to the at least one value being in excess of the at least one threshold.