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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 03, 2012
Filed:
Apr. 27, 2006
Yusaku Morishige, Kanagawa, JP;
Nobuhiko Ando, Tokyo, JP;
Yusaku Morishige, Kanagawa, JP;
Nobuhiko Ando, Tokyo, JP;
Sony Corporation, , JP;
Abstract
The present invention relates to a recording apparatus, a recording method, a program, and a recording medium whereby data is reproduced from a two-layer optical disk that has yet to be formatted completely. A control sectiondivides a recording area of a layer Lof the optical diskinto a plurality of recording regions and a recording area of a layer Lof the same diskinto a plurality of recording regions at substantially the same physical positions as the recording regions of the layer L. A control sectionrecords the region where user-designated data was last written. The control sectioncontrols a signal processing sectionto write dummy data to the recording area of the layer Lor Ldifferent from the layer that includes the region to which the user-designated data was last written. The signal processing sectionis then controlled to write dummy data to the recording area of the layer containing the region where the user-designated data was last written, thus formatting the optical disk. This invention can be applied advantageously to the recording apparatus for recording data to optical disks.