Patent ID: 6137521
Filing Date: 2000-10-24
Classification: B41J,G11B

Abstract:
An information recording apparatus for recording, on an information recording medium, multimedia information including at least one of audio information, image information and digital code data in an optically readable code form, said information recording apparatus comprising:a recording head unit for printing a code associated with the multimedia information on the information recording medium;driving means for moving the recording head unit in a first direction of the information recording medium, and for moving the information recording medium relative to the recording head unit in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction; andlayout information input means for inputting layout information according to which the code is printed on the information recording medium,wherein predetermined processing is executed with respect to the code to be recorded, in accordance with the input layout information, such that the code is recorded on the information recording medium in a spatially independent tanner only by a single one-way scan operation of the recording head unit in the first direction, without moving the information recording medium and the recording head unit relative to each other in the second direction.