Patent ID: 8194109

Claim:
A method of forming an image on an optical disk comprising: connecting a computer and an optical disk image forming apparatus in a communication state; storing, in the computer, original image data of an image to be formed as a visual image on a data recording layer of the optical disk or an image forming layer provided separately from the data recording layer; loading the optical disk on the optical disk image forming apparatus; transmitting information of a preset image forming condition from the optical disk image forming apparatus to the computer; generating, by the computer, image forming data adapted to the image forming condition based on the stored original image data and the information of the image forming condition, and transmitting the generated image forming data to the optical disk image forming apparatus; causing the optical disk image forming apparatus to sequentially transfer an optical head in a radial direction of the optical disk while rotating the optical disk; and irradiating image forming laser light modulated based on the transmitted image forming data from the optical head onto the optical disk according to the image forming condition to form the visual image on the data recording layer or the image forming layer, wherein: the image forming condition is a condition that is related to an operation setting of the optical disk image forming apparatus at a time of image forming, and that is preset in the optical disk image forming apparatus, the image forming condition is a condition for a unit transfer amount of the optical head in the radial direction of the optical disk or a condition for a plurality of parameters that are used to calculate the unit transfer amount, the computer generates, based on the original image data, the image forming data for each position in the radial direction of the optical disk, which is adapted to the unit transfer amount set by the image forming condition, and transmits the generated image forming data to the optical disk image forming apparatus, and the optical disk image forming apparatus modulates image forming laser light based on the transmitted image forming data while sequentially transferring the optical head by the set unit transfer amount in the radial direction of the optical disk to form the visual image.