US 7,453,780 B2
Information recording medium, information recording/reproducing apparatus and information management method
Akihito Ogawa, Kawasaki (Japan); Hiroharu Satoh, Tokyo (Japan); and Chosaku Noda, Kawasaki (Japan)
Assigned to Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Tokyo (Japan)
Filed on Jul. 28, 2005, as Appl. No. 11/190,853.
Claims priority of application No. 2004-224486 (JP), filed on Jul. 30, 2004.
Prior Publication US 2006/0023596 A1, Feb. 02, 2006
Int. Cl. G11B 7/00 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 369—53.21  [369/59.23] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
10. An information management apparatus for a write-once type recordable optical disk comprising:
means for specifying a recorded portion of the write-once type recordable optical disk,
means for generating erasing data modulated by a modulation system of the same run length restriction as run length restriction of a modulation system used for recording data, and
means for applying laser light based on the erasing data to the recorded portion and destroying recorded data.