Patent ID: 7255265

Claim:
Apparatus comprising: an automated banking machine including a housing; a user interface in supporting connection with the housing, the user interface including at least one user input device and at least one user output device; an opening in the housing adapted to receive documents into the machine from users; at least one first transport adapted to move a document received through the opening in a first direction in a document alignment area within the machine, wherein the first transport includes at least one first moving member supported on at least one moveable first carriage; a plurality of noncontact sensors in the document alignment area adapted to sense at least one edge of a document in the document alignment area; a plurality of second transports in the document alignment area, wherein each second transport is adapted to move a document in the document alignment area in a second direction generally transverse of the first direction, and wherein at least one second transport is spaced in the first direction from at least one other second transport; at least one document sensor in the machine adapted to sense indicia on documents; at least one drive, wherein the at least one drive is adapted to independently drive the at least one first transport and each of the plurality of second transports; wherein the at least one drive includes at least one carriage drive adapted to move the at least one movable first carriage; at least one processor in operative connection with each of the plurality of noncontact sensors, at least one document sensor, and at least one drive; wherein the at least one processor is operative to cause a first document to move in the alignment area in engagement with the first transport in a first direction, and to move the first document in the alignment area in the second direction in engagement with the plurality of second transports to an aligned position responsive to sensing at least one edge of the first document with the plurality of noncontact sensors, and to cause the first document to move from the aligned position in the first direction to adjacent the at least one document sensor.