Patent ID: 7209420

Claim:
An optical information recording apparatus for recording information on an optical information recording medium having a structure of multiple recording layers on each of which recording is performable, the optical information recording apparatus performing a predetermined OPC operation in advance at a time of performing the recording, the optical information recording apparatus comprising: a reading part configured to read information on a type of the optical information recording medium, the information being recorded on the optical information recording medium; a storage unit configured to store information on a recording condition at a time of performing the predetermined OPC operation for each of the recording layers with respect to one or each of a plurality of types of optical information recording media; a recording condition obtaining part configured to read out the recording condition corresponding to the read type when the recording condition is stored in the storage unit, and read the recording condition recorded in a corresponding one of the recording layers of the optical information recording medium, the recording layers recording the respective recording conditions thereof, when the recording condition is not stored in the storage unit; and an OPC performance part configured to perform the predetermined OPC operation using the obtained recording condition.