Optical disc image drawing method, optical disc image drawing program, and optical disc image drawing system

A computer readable recording medium storing an optical disc image drawing program executed by a computer communicatable with an optical disk image drawing apparatus that loads an optical disc in which a visible image can be drawn onto a surface thereof, rotates the optical disc, moves an optical head in a disc diameter direction, modulates a laser beam to be output from the optical head in accordance with image data received from the computer, and irradiates the modulated laser beam onto the optical disc to draw the visible image corresponding to the image data, sequentially, the optical disc image drawing program causing the computer to executes the steps of:

• transmitting the image data of the visible image to be drawn on the optical disc to the optical disk image drawing apparatus, sequentially;
• acquiring the total amount of the transmitted data and calculating a position corresponding to the acquired total data amount in the disc diameter direction at which a drawing operation is currently performed while the computer transmits the image data to the optical disc image drawing apparatus, sequentially;
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• displaying a picture of the entire drawing image on a display so that the calculated position at which the drawing operation is currently performed can be visually recognized, sequentially.

An optical disc image drawing system, comprising:

• an optical disc image drawing apparatus that loads an optical disc on which a drawing operation can be performed on a surface thereof, rotates the optical disc, moves an optical head in a disc diameter direction, modulates a laser beam to be output from the optical head in accordance with image data received from the computer, and irradiates the modulated laser beam onto the optical disc to draw the visible image corresponding to the image data;
• a computer that transmits the image data of the visible image to be drawn on the optical disc to the optical disk image drawing apparatus, acquires the total amount of the transmitted data and calculates a position corresponding to the acquired total data amount in the disc diameter direction at which a drawing operation is currently performed while the computer transmits the image data to the optical disc image drawing apparatus, sequentially;
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• a display displays a picture of the entire drawing image thereon so that the calculated position at which the drawing operation is currently performed can be visually recognized, sequentially.