Patent ID: 9595287
Date: 2017-03-14
CPC Classifications: G11B

Claim:
1. A recording apparatus comprising: a first optical pickup configured to record information on either a land track or a groove track, with respect to a recording medium that is able to be recorded in both the land track and the groove track; a second optical pickup configured to record information on the other of either the groove track or the land track that are disposed radially in a predetermined track-width distance from a track recorded by the first optical pickup; and a controller configured to cause the first optical pickup to record information, if tracks of both sides of a track that the first optical pickup follows are unrecorded, and to cause the second optical pickup to record information, if tracks of both sides of a track that the second optical pickup follows are recorded, wherein the first optical pickup is disposed before the second optical pickup in a rotation direction of the recording medium, and wherein the controller causes the second optical pickup to start recording information with a delay of one or more rotations with respect to the first optical pickup, and to record information in a track between tracks recorded by the first optical pickup.