Patent ID: 7263281

Claim:
An information recording/reproducing method for recording a DV (Digital Video) signal on a disc as an information recording medium, or reproducing the DV signal from the disc on which the DV signal is recorded, comprising: handling the DV signal in units of frame, and temporarily storing the DV signals corresponding to the frames in a frame memory at the recording or reproduction; detecting completion of tracking when a command is issued; successively from a LBA (Logical Block Address) on the disc at which recording or reproduction of the DV signals is permitted, performing recording or reproduction of the DV signals corresponding to respective LBAs; and thereafter, for a part of the disc at which the recording or reproduction of the DV signals has not been performed, carrying out recording or reproduction operations for the DV signals corresponding to respective LBAs, wherein after the DV signal stored in the frame memory is recorded or reproduced with being divided, the subsequent DV signal is recorded or reproduced without being divided, and after the DV signal stored in the frame memory is recorded or reproduced without being divided, the subsequent DV signal is recorded or reproduced with being divided.