Patent ID: 8213274

Claim:
A method for reproducing an optical disc comprising: calculating an outer circumferential direction total jump number of tracks from a difference between a present address and a target address when a seek operation is performed from the present address on a non-finalized DVD+R standard optical disc to the target address positioned on an outer circumferential side of the present address; determining whether the present address is in a first outer circumferential zone of a first number of tracks from a closure positioned at an outermost circumference of a recorded area of the optical disc or whether the present address is in an inner circumferential zone on an inner circumferential side of the first outer circumferential zone; determining whether the target address is in a second outer circumferential zone of a second number of tracks from the closure; setting a jump number of tracks to a third number smaller than the outer circumferential direction total jump number when a first condition is satisfied in which the present address is in the inner circumferential zone, the target address is in the second outer circumferential zone, and the outer circumferential direction total jump number is between a first number and a second number larger than the first number, and performing a traverse seek using a moving mechanism to move an optical pickup in a radius direction by the third number, wherein when a second condition is satisfied in which the present address is in the inner circumferential zone, the target address is in the second outer circumferential zone, and the outer circumferential direction total jump number is smaller than the first number, the jump number of tracks is set to a fourth number smaller than the third number, and a multi jump is performed in which an irradiation position of a laser beam from the optical pickup is moved in the radius direction by the fourth number in a state where a position of the optical pickup determined by the moving mechanism is fixed.