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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 02, 2010
Filed:
Dec. 22, 2005
Toshisada Ishii, Tokyo, JP;
Kenichiro Aridome, Kanagawa, JP;
Toshisada Ishii, Tokyo, JP;
Kenichiro Aridome, Kanagawa, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The present invention has been made to increase the number of times of imaging operation in the case where a DVD+RW is used as a recording medium. The present invention provides an optical disc recording apparatus that records data onto an optical disc that adopts a format in which title and chapter are specified as data management units, the title being a playback unit of contents recorded in contiguous physical areas and the chapter being a unit obtained by dividing the title into a plurality of pieces, which includes a record unit that receives contents data as an input, encodes the contents data into a data stream compatible with the format, and records the encoded data stream onto the optical disc, and a control unit that controls recording processing for the optical disc, wherein the control unit records new contents data onto the optical disc in the physical area continuing from the last title of all recorded titles as a chapter continuing from the last chapter included in the last title.