Patent ID: 8118217

Claim:
Apparatus comprising: an automated banking machine, wherein the machine includes at least one reader operable to read machine user data corresponding to a financial account, wherein the machine includes a check acceptor operable to receive checks from machine users, wherein the machine includes at least one scanner, wherein the at least one scanner includes at least three light sources, each operable to respectively emit a different color of light, wherein the at least one scanner includes a plurality of sensors arranged in a row, wherein each sensor is operative to acquire pixel data representative of light intensity, wherein the at least one scanner is operative to acquire an electronic image of at least one side of a received check as the check moves relative to the row of sensors, wherein the electronic image comprises a plurality of respective parallel scan lines corresponding to respective strips of the at least one side, wherein each respective scan line includes a plurality of pixel data representative of levels of intensity of light reflected from the respective strip and sensed by the sensors for only one of the colors of light, wherein the at least one scanner in acquiring the pixel data for a respective scan line, uses the one color to illuminate the respective strip, resulting in at least two of the colors not used in illuminating the respective strip, wherein the machine is associated with at least one processor, wherein the at least one processor is operatively connected with the at least one reader and the at least one scanner, wherein the at least one processor is operative for each respective scan line corresponding to a respective strip, to interpolate additional pixel data using at least one adjacent scan line adjacent to the respective scan line, wherein the additional pixel data is representative of a sensed intensity of light reflected from at least one adjacent strip adjacent to the respective strip, for at least two of the colors not used in illuminating the respective strip, wherein the at least one processor is operative for each respective scan line, to include the additional pixel data with the acquired pixel data, wherein the electronic image with the additional pixel data corresponds to a reconstructed electronic image of the at least one side.