UNIQUE CODE GENERATING APPARATUS, METHOD, PROGRAM AND RECORDING MEDIUM

A unique code generating apparatus for generating, according to biometric information representing a physical or behavioral feature of a user, a unique code as a unique value for the biometric information includes a statistic information generating section for conducting statistical analysis for a feature of biometric information for registration and generating statistic information, a statistic information table generating section for summarizing the statistic information for each biometric information, setting a unique code for each statistic information, and generating a statistic information table unique to the biometric information, a unique code extracting section for applying to the statistic information table the statistic information generated by the statistic information generating section according to biometric information for collation and extracting an associated unique code from the table, and an output processing section for outputting the unique code extracted by the unique code extracting section to an output interface.