Patent ID: 8730776

Claim:
A recording device, comprising: a light irradiation/receiving unit that irradiates an optical recording medium with first light which serves as recording light and with second light which is different from the first light and that receives backpropagating light of the second light from the optical recording medium; a recording unit that carries out recording on the optical recording medium based on recording data by driving a light source of the first light to emit light; a playback signal generating unit that obtains a playback signal of a signal which is recorded on the optical recording medium based on a light receiving signal of the second light; and a stray light signal component canceling unit that generates, based on recording data, a stray light cancel signal for canceling a stray light signal component which is superimposed on the playback signal by stray light associated with emission of the first light leaking into the second light when the second light is received, and that cancels the stray light signal component superimposed on the playback signal through the stray light cancel signal.