Patent ID: 7079478

Claim:
An optical recording apparatus for recording information to an optical recording medium having an aligned prepit portion straddled on a plurality of tracks in a radial direction, the prepit portion including first and second prepit portions divided in a track direction and arranged on a boundary line of the respective tracks, the first and second prepit portions each having address information prepits arranged at every two-track pitch in the radial direction, the address information prepit of the first prepit portion and the address information prepit of the second prepit portion being arranged with one track displaced in the radial direction, and a trailing end of an end prepit of the first prepit portion being aligned with the radial direction in arrangement, the optical recording apparatus comprising: an irradiation source for irradiating a light spot on the optical recording medium; and control means for controlling an irradiation position of an optical spot from the irradiation source.