Patent ID: 8387867

Claim:
Apparatus comprising: an automated transaction machine, wherein the machine includes at least one reader operable to read machine user data usable to identify a financial account with which a transaction can be carried out through use of the machine, wherein the machine includes at least one scanner, wherein the at least one scanner includes at least three light sources operable to emit light respectively in at least three different colors, wherein the at least one scanner includes a plurality of sensors arranged in a row, wherein each sensor is operable to acquire pixel data representative of light intensity, wherein the at least one scanner is operable to acquire an electronic image of at least one side of at least one check as the at least one check moves relative the row of sensors, wherein the electronic image comprises a plurality of respective parallel scan lines, each including a plurality of pixel data representative of levels of intensity of light sensed by the sensors for at least one color of light reflected from a respective different section of the at least one side of the at least one check, wherein the at least one scanner when acquiring pixel data for each respective scan line for the electronic image, is operable to cause only two of the light sources to sequently illuminate a respective section of the at least one side of the at least one check that is adjacent the row of sensors, wherein at least one set of three sequentially adjacent scan lines of the electronic image includes: a first scan line comprising pixel data acquired during only illumination of a first one and a second one of the light sources; a second scan line comprising pixel data acquired during only illumination of a second one and a third one of the light sources; and a third scan line comprising pixel data acquired during only illumination of the first one and the third one of the light sources.