Patent ID: 7602677

Claim:
An optical disk device comprising: an encoder section configured to encode first data inputted from an input source, and output the first data as a Video Object Unit (VOBU) which stores the first data and address information with respect to each of other multiple VOBUs which stores second data to be recorded on the optical disk subsequently to the first data; an update and storage section configured to update and store the VOBU encoded by the encoder section: a pickup head configured to irradiate an optical disk with laser light to record the VOBU stored in the update and storage section on the optical disk by unit of a cell which consists of multiple VOBUs; a mover section configured to move the pickup head radially of the optical disk to change a laser light irradiating position of the pickup head relative to the optical disk; and a control section configured to notify the mover section of a position moved a predetermined amount from an error position at which the pickup head has stopped recording as a recording resume position of the pickup head, when an error occurs during recording of a cell by the pickup head and the recording is stopped, wherein the control section carries out a control process in which: the control section determines whether or not the error position is located at a head of a cell, and whether or not the recording resume position is located within the cell; if it is determined that the error position is located at the head of the cell, the control section instructs the pickup head to resume recording at the recording resume position from the head of the cell stored in the update and storage section; if it is determined that the error position is not located at the head of the cell and that the recording resume position is located within the cell, the control section instructs the pickup head to resume recording at the recording resume position from a data item located within the cell coincidently with the recording resume position; and if it is determined that the error position is not located at the head position of the cell and that the recording resume position is not located within the cell, the control section instructs the pickup head to resume recording at the recording resume position from the head of a cell to be recorded subsequently.