Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Takumi Matsuura

Tsutomu Kai

Mitsuaki Oshima

Toshikazu Koudo

Tsukasa Yoshiura

Masaharu Imura

Ryosuke Shimizu

Michiro Tanaka

Yoshitaka Mitsui

Satoshi Tan

An information recording method of recording information, in which laser light is applied to a recording medium while depending on predetermined information said laser light is modulated and the intensity of said light is controlled to form recording mark areas at which reflectivity of said recording medium changes, depending on the intensity of said applied light, wherein before starting data recording, said light is applied to said recording medium at predetermined light intensity, reflection light from said recording mark areas of said recording medium is received, the amount of said reflection light is detected, and a light intensity controlling reference value is calculated on the basis of the amount of said detected light, and during data recording, reflection light from said recording mark areas of said recording medium is received, the amount of said reflection light is detected, and a light intensity controlling detection value is calculated on the basis of the amount of said detected light, corrected light intensity is obtained from the difference between said light controlling intensity reference value and said light intensity controlling detection value, said light intensity controlling reference value is corrected depending on said corrected light intensity, and the intensity of said laser light is controlled so that said corrected light intensity controlling reference value substantially coincides with said light intensity controlling detection value.

Information recording method and information recording apparatus

In order to determine a laser emission waveform rule for a recording medium, such as a write-once optical disc, the present invention provides an information recording apparatus, an information recording method and an information recording system capable of determining optimal recording conditions by recording data for approximately one rotation, by reproducing the recorded area, by measuring a phase error for each combination of the length of a mark and the length of a space immediately before or after the mark and by changing an emission waveform rule on the basis of the measured phase error.

Information recording apparatus using a mark edge recording

A disk-shaped recording medium includes a transparent substrate, and an optical recording layer and a magnetic recording layer formed at one side of the transparent substrate. An optical head applies light to the optical recording layer from a light source via the transparent substrate, and focuses the light on the optical recording layer and reproduces information from the optical recording layer. A magnetic head records information on the magnetic recording layer or reproduces information from the magnetic recording layer. An optical head moving device serves to move the optical head by a movement amount so as to focus the light on an optical track on the optical recording layer which has specified address information. A magnetic head moving device serves to move the magnetic head to a specified magnetic track on the magnetic recording layer by referring to the movement amount of the optical head.

Recording and reproducing apparatus with varying amounts of data in

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Takumi Matsuura