US 7,616,544 B2
Access unit, access method, computer-readable recording medium recorded with access program, and control unit
Harumitsu Miyashita, Nara (Japan); Yasumori Hino, Nara (Japan); and Tetsuya Shihara, Osaka (Japan)
Assigned to Panasonic Corporation, Osaka (Japan)
Appl. No. 10/591,327
PCT Filed Oct. 21, 2005, PCT No. PCT/JP2005/019402
§ 371(c)(1), (2), (4) Date Aug. 31, 2006,
PCT Pub. No. WO2006/061955, PCT Pub. Date Jun. 15, 2006.
Claims priority of application No. 2004-354747 (JP), filed on Dec. 07, 2004.
Prior Publication US 2007/0177468 A1, Aug. 02, 2007
Int. Cl. G11B 7/00 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 369—47.53 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
7. An access method for accessing a record medium, the record medium including a user area for recording user data which is recorded and reproduced based on an instruction given by a user, said access method comprising:
recording test data in the user area based on a predetermined test condition in the user area during recording of the user data in the user area, the recording the test data beginning in a position which is a predetermined radial distance toward an outer circumference of the record medium from a first position in which a first portion of the user data finishes being recorded in the user area;
reading the test data recorded in the user area in the recording operation;
referring to the test data read in the reading operation, and adjusting an access parameter for accessing the record medium; and
recording a second portion of the user data beginning in a second position which is a predetermined radial distance toward the outer circumference of the record medium from a position in which the test data finishes being recorded.