BIOMETRIC INFORMATION INPUT DEVICE, BIOMETRIC AUTHENTICATION DEVICE, BIOMETRIC INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM RECORDING BIOMETRIC INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM

The invention is a biometric information input device including biometric information collection means for reading a relatively-moving living body site and successively collecting a plurality of partial images of the living body site as biometric information, movement direction detection means for detecting a movement direction of the living body site with respect to the biometric information collection means based on the biometric information collected by the biometric information collection means, and coordinate conversion means for performing a coordinate conversion on the biometric information collected by the biometric information collection means using the movement direction detected by the movement direction detection means, thereby allowing the device to be used irrespective of a direction in which a living body is swept when biometric information is entered.