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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 14, 2017
Filed:
Feb. 03, 2016
Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Kazuo Momoo, Osaka, JP;
Yuichi Takahashi, Nara, JP;
Abstract
A recording and reproducing apparatus according to the present disclosure includes a first optical pickup configured to record information on either a land track and a groove track, with respect to a recording medium that is able to be recorded in the land track and the groove track, a second optical pickup configured to record information on a track different from a track recorded by the first optical pickup, and a controller configured to cause the first optical pickup to record information if tracks of both sides of a track that the first optical pickup follows are recorded, and to cause the second optical pickup to record information if tracks of both sides of a track that the second optical pickup follows are recorded.