# US 2009/0268596 A1 · Information recording medium, information recording apparatus and method, and computer program > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 2009/0268596 A1 - Document ID: US20090268596A1 - Status: Published application - Kind: A1 - Application number: 12/158,585 - Filed: 2006-12-20 - Published: 2009-10-29 - Earliest claimed: 2005-12-21 - Assignees: Pioneer Corporation - Inventors: Takeshi Koda; Keiji Katata; Masahiro Kato; Masayoshi Yoshida; Masahiro Miura; Eiji Muramatsu; Shoji Taniguchi - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20090268596A1 ## CPC - G11B 27/329: {on a disc [VTOC]} - G11B 7/00736: {Auxiliary data, e.g. lead-in, lead-out, Power Calibration Area [PCA], Burst Cutting Area [BCA], control information (sector headers or adresses in prepits G11B7/00745; address data in track wobble G11B7/24082)} - G11B 20/1217: {on discs} - G11B 7/24038: Multiple laminated recording layers - G11B 2020/1267: {Address data} - G11B 2220/237: having exactly two recording layers - G11B 2220/2562: DVDs [digital versatile discs]; Digital video discs; MMCDs; HDCDs - G11B: INFORMATION STORAGE BASED ON RELATIVE MOVEMENT BETWEEN RECORD CARRIER AND TRANSDUCER (recording measured values in a way that does not require playback through a transducer G01D9/00; recording or playback apparatus using mechanically marked tape, e.g. punched paper tape, or using unit records, e.g. punched or magnetically marked cards G06K; transferring data from one type of record carrier to another G06K1/18; circuits for coupling output of reproducer to radio receiver H04B1/20; gramophone pick-ups or like acoustic electromechanical transducers or circuits therefor H04R) ## Abstract An information recording medium (100) is provided with: a data recording area (105, 115) to which one attribute, which corresponds to recorded data, of a plurality of types of attributes is given in each of segmentized area units; and an address recording area (1031, 1032) to record therein an address (AD0-1, AD1-1) of an edge portion on an outermost side of a recording area, which is a continuous recording area to which a data area attribute of the plurality of types of attributes is given and which is a recording area closest to an edge portion on an innermost side of said data recording area, the data area attribute indicating a status that user data is recorded as the data. ## Claims ### Claim at position 1 1-16. (canceled) ### Claim 17 An information recording medium which can be rewritable comprising: a data recording area to which one attribute, which corresponds to recorded data, of a plurality of types of attributes is given in each of segmentized area units; and an address recording area to record therein an address of an edge portion on an outermost side of a recording area, which is a continuous recording area to which a data area attribute of the plurality of types of attributes is given and which is a recording area closest to an edge portion on an innermost side of said data recording area, the data area attribute indicating a status that user data is recorded as the data. ### Claim 18 (depends on 17) The information recording medium according to claim 17, wherein the address of the edge portion on the outermost side of the recording area which is the recording area closest to the edge portion on the innermost side of said data recording area, of a plurality of recording areas to each of which the data area attribute is given and each of which is the continuous recording area, is recorded into said address recording area. ### Claim 19 (depends on 17) The information recording medium according to claim 17, comprising a first recording layer and a second recording layer, each of which comprises at least said data recording area, and at least one of which comprises said address recording area. ### Claim 20 (depends on 19) The information recording medium according to claim 19, wherein each of (i) the address of the edge portion on the outermost side of the recording area, which is the continuous recording area to which the data area attribute is given and which is a recording area closest to the edge portion on the innermost side of said data recording area in said first recording layer and (ii) the address of the edge portion on the outermost side of the recording area, which is the continuous recording area to which the data area attribute is given and which is a recording area closest to the edge portion on the innermost side of said data recording area in said second recording layer, is recorded into said address recording area. ### Claim 21 (depends on 19) The information recording medium according to claim 19, wherein an address in said first recording layer increases from an inner circumferential side toward an outer circumferential side, an address in said second recording layer decreases from the inner circumferential side toward the outer circumferential side, and each of (i) a largest address of the recording area, which is the continuous recording area to which the data area attribute is given and which is a recording area closest to the edge portion on the innermost side of said data recording area in said first recording layer and (ii) a smallest address of the recording area, which is the continuous recording area to which the data area attribute is given and which is a recording area closest to the edge portion on the innermost side of said data recording area in said second recording layer, is recorded into said address recording area. ### Claim 22 (depends on 17) The information recording medium according to claim 17, wherein the plurality of types of attributes include at least one of a lead-in area attribute, a lead-out attribute, the data area attribute, and a middle area attribute. ### Claim 23 (depends on 17) The information recording medium according to claim 17, further comprising a management data recording area to record therein management data for managing at least one of recording and reproduction of the data recorded in said data recording area, said address recording area being located in said management data recording area. ### Claim 24 An information recording apparatus comprising: a first recording device for recording data onto an information recording medium which can be rewritable, while giving one attribute, which corresponds to the recorded data, of a plurality of types of attributes in each of segmentized area units; and a second recording device for recording, onto the information recording medium, an address of an edge portion on an outermost side of a recording area, which is a continuous recording area to which a data area attribute of the plurality of types of attributes is given and which is a recording area closest to an edge portion on an innermost side of said data recording area, the data area attribute indicating a status that user data is recorded as the data. ### Claim 25 (depends on 24) The information recording apparatus according to claim 24, wherein said first recording device records the data into a data recording area of the information recording medium, while giving the one attribute, which corresponds to the recorded data, of the plurality of types of attributes in each of the segmentized area units, and said second recording device records, into an address recording area of the information recording medium, the address of the edge portion on the outermost side of the recording area, which is the continuous recording area to which the data area attribute is given and which is the recording area closest to the edge portion on the innermost side of said data recording area. ### Claim 26 (depends on 24) The information recording apparatus according to claim 24, wherein the information recording medium comprises a first recording layer and a second recording layer, each of which comprises at least said data recording area, and at least one of which comprises said address recording area, and said second recording device records each of (i) the address of the edge portion on the outermost side of the recording area, which is the continuous recording area to which the data area attribute is given and which is a recording area closest to the edge portion on the innermost side of the information recording medium in said first recording layer and (ii) the address of the edge portion on the outermost side of the recording area, which is the continuous recording area to which the data area attribute is given and which is a recording area closest to the edge portion on the innermost side of the information recording medium in said second recording layer. ### Claim 27 (depends on 24) The information recording apparatus according to claim 24, further comprising: a formatting device for performing a format process on a desired recording area of the information recording medium; and a controlling device for controlling said formatting device to start the format process toward an outer circumferential side from the edge portion on the outermost side of the recording area, which is the continuous recording area to which the data area attribute is given and which is the recording area closest to the edge portion on the innermost side of the information recording medium, if the format process is performed on a recording area having a start edge portion on an inner circumferential side of and an end edge portion on an outer circumferential side of the edge portion on the outermost side of the recording area, which is the continuous recording area to which the data area attribute is given and which is the recording area closest to the edge portion on the innermost of the information recording medium. ### Claim 28 An information recording apparatus comprising: a first recording device for recording data onto an information recording medium which can be rewritable, while giving one attribute, which corresponds to the recorded data, of a plurality of types of attributes in each of segmentized area units; and a formatting device for performing a format process on the information recording medium, with reference to an address of an edge portion on an outermost side of a recording area, which is continuous recording area to which a data area attribute of the plurality of types of attributes is given and which is a recording area closest to an edge portion on an innermost side of said data recording area, the data area attribute indicating a status that user data is recorded as the data. ### Claim 29 An information recording method comprising: a first recording process of recording data onto an information recording medium which can be rewritable, while giving one attribute, which corresponds to the recorded data, of a plurality of types of attributes in each of segmentized area units; and a second recording process of recording, onto the information recording medium, an address of an edge portion on an outermost side of a recording area, which is a continuous recording area to which a data area attribute of the plurality of types of attributes is given and which is a recording area closest to an edge portion on an innermost side of said data recording area, the data area attribute indicating a status that user data is recorded as the data. ### Claim 30 An information recording method comprising: a first recording process of recording data onto an information recording medium which can be rewritable, while giving one attribute, which corresponds to the recorded data, of a plurality of types of attributes in each of segmentized area units; and a formatting process of performing a format process on the information recording medium, with reference to an address of an edge portion on an outermost side of a recording area, which is a continuous recording area to which a data area attribute of the plurality of types of attributes is given and which is a recording area closest to an edge portion on an innermost side of said data recording area, the data area attribute indicating a status that user data is recorded as the data. ### Claim 31 (depends on 24) A computer program product in a computer-readable medium for tangibly embodying a program of instructions executable by a computer provided in the information recording apparatus according to claim 24, said computer program making the computer function as at least one portion of said first recording device and said second recording device. ### Claim 32 (depends on 28) A computer program product in a computer-readable medium for tangibly embodying a program of instructions executable by a computer provided in the information recording apparatus according to claim 28, said computer program making the computer function as at least one portion of said first recording device and said second formatting device.