Patent ID: 8599662

Claim:
A reproducing device comprising: laser light irradiating means for emitting laser light for reproduction, one of n (n is a natural number of two or more) layers formed in an optical recording medium being set as a reproduction object; correction coefficient information retaining means for retaining correction coefficient information including a correction coefficient for laser power, the correction coefficient being associated with a combination of a reproduction object recording layer and a recorded/unrecorded state pattern of each transmitting recording layer transmitting the laser light before the laser light reaches the reproduction object recording layer; correction coefficient obtaining means for: determining a recorded/unrecorded state pattern of each present transmitting recording layer by reflecting a result of determining whether a present region transmitting the laser light is a recorded region part or an unrecorded region part in each transmitting recording layer; and obtaining a correction coefficient corresponding to a combination of a present reproduction object recording layer and the recorded/unrecorded state pattern of each present transmitting recording layer of the present region from the correction coefficient information retaining means; laser power setting means for determining a correction coefficient for a reference value of the laser power for the laser light for said reproduction at least in part on a basis of the correction coefficient obtained by said correction coefficient obtaining means, and setting the laser power corrected by the determined correction coefficient; driving signal outputting means for outputting a driving signal for emitting the laser light from said laser light irradiating means so as to emit the laser light with the set laser power; and boundary determining means for determining whether a region transmitting the laser light is a region regarded as a vicinity of a boundary between a recorded region part and an unrecorded region part in each transmitting recording layer, wherein said correction coefficient obtaining means obtains, as a correction coefficient term, a correction coefficient corresponding to each possible recorded/unrecorded state pattern of each transmitting recording layer from said correction coefficient information in response to said boundary determining means determining that the region transmitting the laser light is the region regarded as the vicinity of said boundary, and wherein said laser power setting means determines the correction coefficient for the reference value of said laser power by an average value obtained from the correction coefficient term obtained by said correction coefficient obtaining means.