Patent ID: 8132716

Claim:
Apparatus comprising: an automated banking machine operative to cause a financial transaction associated with an account to be carried out, wherein the automated banking machine includes at least one reader operative to read data usable to identify at least one of a machine user and an account, at least one display, and at least one audio speaker, at least one service provider station remotely located from the automated banking machine, wherein each respective service provider station is operable by a respective operator, wherein each respective service provider station includes at least one image capture device, wherein the at least one image capture device is operative to capture at least one facial image of a face of an operator at the respective service provider station, wherein the at least one image capture device is operative to generate operator facial image data corresponding to the at least one facial image, at least one sound capture device, wherein the at least one sound capture device is operative to capture vocal sounds made by the operator at the respective service provider station, wherein the at least one sound capture device is operative to generate operator vocal sound data corresponding to the vocal sounds, at least one manual input device, wherein the at least one manual input device is configured to receive inputs from the operator at the respective service provider station, at least one computer, wherein the at least one computer is operative responsive at least in part to generated operator facial image data, to produce modified facial image data, wherein the modified facial image data corresponds to at least one facial image of a face other than that of the operator at the respective service provider station, wherein the at least one computer is operative responsive at least in part to generated operator vocal sound data, to produce modified vocal sound data, wherein the modified vocal sound data corresponds to vocal sounds other than those of the operator at the respective service provider station, wherein the at least one computer is operative to cause the at least one display to output a facial image corresponding to the modified facial image data, and cause the at least one audio speaker to output vocal sounds corresponding to the modified vocal sound data.