Patent ID: 7376066
Filing Date: 2008-05-20
Classification: G11B

Abstract:
1. An information recording method configured for recording in an information recording medium, comprising: a step of converting a word of binary data into m pieces of n-level data, wherein the word consists of x bits, x is an integer that is equal to or greater than 3, m is an integer equal to or greater than 2, and n is an integer equal to or greater than 3; a step of arranging plural of the words into a row of data sequence, the words being in a recording and reproducing direction of the information recording medium; a step of arranging plural of the rows of data sequence into an error correction block; a step of adding address information to each of the rows of data sequence; and a step of adding the error correction block, to which the address information is added, to the n-level data.