Patent ID: 8286867

Claim:
An apparatus operative to cause financial transfers, comprising: an imaging device, wherein the imaging device is operable to capture an image that includes check image data corresponding to at least a portion of a check, at least one input device, wherein the at least one user input device allows a user to provide inputs during a carrying out of a financial transfer involving the check, at least one output device, wherein the at least one output device includes a user display, at least one computer, wherein the at least one computer is in operative connection with each of the imaging device, the at least one user input device, and the at least one user output device, wherein the at least one computer is configured to produce from a captured image captured by the imaging device, which captured image includes check image data skewed relative to an imposed coordinate system, a modified image that includes the check image data deskewed relative to the coordinate system, wherein the at least one computer is operable to produce the modified image by electronically shifting relative to the coordinate system, substantially all pixels from the check image data in the captured image, wherein relative to the captured image, the modified image includes a shifted version of the check image data, wherein the at least one computer is configured to resolve check data from the check image data in the modified image.