Automated banking machine system and monitoring method
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1. A method comprising:
- (a) operating an automated banking machine to receive from a user of the machine, a financial check needing a legally binding endorsement signature from the user in order to be acceptable to the machine for purposes of carrying out a transaction;
(b) operating the machine to receive at least one user input from the user,wherein the at least one user input indicates user agreement to have the machine use at least one facial image of the user as a legally binding electronic signature of the user for purposes of endorsing the check;
(c) operating at least one camera of the machine to capture at least one facial image of the user,wherein the at least one facial image includes a visual representation of the user'"'"'s face; and
(d) subsequent to (a)-(c), operating the machine to correlate the check received in (a) with the at least one facial image captured in (c),wherein the at least one facial image is a legally binding electronic signature of the user for purposes of endorsing the check for the transaction,wherein the legally binding electronic signature constitutes a legally binding endorsement signature from the user for the check,wherein the legally binding endorsement signature allows the check to be acceptable to the machine for purposes of carrying out the transaction.
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Abstract
An automated banking machine is part of a banking system that can operate to cause financial transfers responsive to data read from data bearing records, including user cards. The machine is in operative connection with a system operable to capture images related to activity that is conducted at or adjacent to the machine. The machine is positioned at a banking facility having a vault and an entrance. A plurality of cameras are positioned at the facility. Captured images can be analyzed at a remote monitoring center. The monitoring center can operate to assure that employees or customers of the banking facility can safely enter and/or exit the banking facility.
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1. A method comprising:
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(a) operating an automated banking machine to receive from a user of the machine, a financial check needing a legally binding endorsement signature from the user in order to be acceptable to the machine for purposes of carrying out a transaction; (b) operating the machine to receive at least one user input from the user, wherein the at least one user input indicates user agreement to have the machine use at least one facial image of the user as a legally binding electronic signature of the user for purposes of endorsing the check; (c) operating at least one camera of the machine to capture at least one facial image of the user, wherein the at least one facial image includes a visual representation of the user'"'"'s face; and (d) subsequent to (a)-(c), operating the machine to correlate the check received in (a) with the at least one facial image captured in (c), wherein the at least one facial image is a legally binding electronic signature of the user for purposes of endorsing the check for the transaction, wherein the legally binding electronic signature constitutes a legally binding endorsement signature from the user for the check, wherein the legally binding endorsement signature allows the check to be acceptable to the machine for purposes of carrying out the transaction. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5)
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6. A method comprising:
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(a) operating an automated banking machine to ask a user of the machine if the user agrees to have a visual representation of at least a portion of the user be an electronic signature of the user for purposes of providing a legally binding signature to a document that is in possession of the machine, wherein the document is absent at least one legally binding signature of the user, wherein the document needs the at least one legally binding signature to achieve a legal effect; (b) subsequent to (a), operating the machine to receive from the user, user input indicative of an agreement to have a visual representation of at least a portion of the user be a legally binding electronic signature of the user for the document; (c) operating the machine to obtain the visual representation; and (d) responsive at least in part to (b), operating the machine to cause the visual representation obtained in (c) to be a legally binding electronic signature for the document in achieving the legal effect. - View Dependent Claims (7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A method comprising:
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(a) operating an automated banking system that is operable to carry out transactions involving financial checks that are respectively endorsed with legally binding signatures of payees, to obtain an image of a financial check associated with a customer of the system, wherein the check is made out to a payee; (b) operating the system to determine that the check is absent a handwritten signature endorsement from the payee; (c) operating the system to inform the customer that a facial image of the customer can be used by the system to endorse the check for the customer; (d) operating the system to receive at least one input from the customer, wherein the at least one input grants permission for the system to use a facial image of the customer to endorse the check for the customer; (e) operating the system to obtain a facial image of the customer, wherein the facial image includes a visual representation of the customer'"'"'s face; wherein the facial image allows the check to be legally endorsed without a handwritten signature endorsement; and (f) operating the system to cause the facial image obtained in (e) to be used as a legally binding electronic signature for purposes of endorsing the check for the customer. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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