Transitioning between consecutive tracks when writing a label to a disc

An optical disc drive, comprising:

• a spindle for placement and rotation of an optical disc;
• an optical pickup unit including a laser for writing an amount of data to a disc;
• an actuator to position the optical pickup unit relative to the optical disc;
• a sensor operatively coupled to the control system, the sensor being configured to obtain positional data from the optical disc rotating on the spindle;
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• a control system operatively coupled to the spindle, the optical pickup unit, and the actuator, the control system controlling the spindle, the optical pickup unit, and the actuator to write a label on the optical disc, the label being embodied in a plurality of tracks that are written onto a surface of the optical disc, the control system imposing a delay between the writing of consecutive ones of the tracks in the optical disc drive, a length of the delay being determined in part by a length of time it takes to transition from a completion of a first one of the tracks to a starting position to write a next consecutive one of the tracks, the control system controlling a plurality of track transition tasks to transition from the completion of the first one of the tracks to the starting position to write the next consecutive one of the tracks, and the control system imposing a predefined delay after the plurality of track transition tasks are completed and before reaching the starting position to write the next consecutive one of the tracks, the control system further looking up a starting pixel of the next consecutive one of the tracks to be written beginning at the starting position during the predefined delay.

An optical disc drive, comprising:

• a spindle for placement and rotation of an optical disc;
• an optical pickup unit including a laser for writing an amount of data to a disc;
• an actuator to position the optical pickup unit relative to the optical disc;
• means for controlling the spindle, the optical pickup unit, and the actuator to write a label on the optical disc, the label being embodied in a plurality of tracks that are written onto a surface of the optical disc, wherein a delay is imposed between the writing of consecutive ones of the tracks in the optical disc drive, a length of the delay being determined in part by a length of time it takes to transition from a completion of a first one of the tracks to a starting position to write a next consecutive one of the tracks, the transition from the completion of the first one of the tracks to the starting position to write the next consecutive one of the tracks including a plurality of track transition tasks, and the means for controlling imposing a predefined delay after the plurality of track transition tasks are completed and before reaching the starting position to write the next consecutive one of the tracks;
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• means for determining a starting pixel at which to start the writing of the next consecutive one of the tracks during the predefined delay.

A method for writing a label to an optical disc, comprising the steps of:

• performing at least one track transition task to place an optical pickup unit in an optical disc drive in a state of readiness to write a track onto the optical disc, wherein the track is a portion of the label to be written on a surface of the optical disc;
• imposing a predefined delay after completion of the at least one track transition task and before reaching a starting position to write the track;
• identifying a starting pixel at which to start the writing of the track to be written to the optical disc during the predefined delay;
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• writing the portion of the label onto the optical disc by writing the track to the optical disc beginning with the starting pixel.

A program embodied in a computer-readable medium for disc drive label writing control, comprising:

• code that controls an optical pickup unit in a disc drive to write a label on a surface of an optical disc, the label being embodied in a plurality of tracks that are written onto the surface of the optical disc, the code imposing a delay between the writing of consecutive ones of a plurality of tracks of a label on an optical disc in an optical disc drive, a length of the delay being determined in part by a length of time it takes to transition from a completion of a first one of the tracks to a starting position to write a next consecutive one of the tracks;
• code that implements a plurality of track transition tasks to transition from the completion of the first one of the tracks to the starting position to write the next consecutive one of the tracks;
• code that imposes a predefined delay after the track transition tasks are completed and before reaching the starting position to write the next consecutive one of the tracks;
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• code that determines a starting pixel at which to start the writing of the next consecutive one of the tracks during the predefined delay.

An optical disc having a label written on a surface of the optical disc according to a method comprising:

• writing the label on the surface of the optical disc, the label being embodied in a plurality of tracks that are each written onto the surface of the optical disc;
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• imposing a delay between the writing of consecutive ones of the tracks in the optical disc drive, a length of the delay being determined in part by a length of time it takes to transition from a completion of a first one of the tracks to a starting position to write a next consecutive one of the tracks;
• performing a plurality of track transition tasks to transition from the completion of the first one of the tracks to the starting position to write the next consecutive one of the tracks;
• imposing a predefined delay after the track transition tasks are completed and before reaching the starting position to write the next consecutive one of the tracks;
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• determining a starting pixel at which to start the writing of the next consecutive one of the tracks during the predefined delay.