Patent ID: 7746756

Claim:
An optical disc recording apparatus for forming a plurality of visible images on an optical disc comprising: an optical pickup which applies a laser beam to the optical disc; a driving section which rotates the optical disc; a data recording section which records data on the optical disc from an inner peripheral side of the optical disc by controlling the optical pickup to apply the laser beam to the optical disc rotated by the driving section starting from the inner peripheral side; and a visible image forming section which forms the visible images on the optical disc sequentially from an outer peripheral side of the optical disc toward the inner peripheral side, each of the visible images being formed by controlling the optical pickup to apply the laser beam to the optical disc rotated by the driving section in a direction oriented from the inner peripheral side to the outer peripheral side of the optical disc, wherein, at the time the visible image forming section forms one visible image, the visible image forming section records address information indicative of a start position where formation of one visible image is started, into a predetermined area of the optical disc, and wherein, at the time the visible image section forms a next visible image, the visible image forming section determines a start position for forming the next image based on the address information recorded in the predetermined area and a width of the next visible image.