US Patent 7382393 Optical disk device

Provided is an optical disk device for performing label recording by irradiating a light beam onto a label recording face of an optical disk, which is at a position different from that of a disk recording face, wherein label recording on the label recording face is performed by using tracking control information of the light beam irradiation which is performed by the optical pickup for the tracks of the disk recording face. Thereby, high-quality label images can be recorded on the label recording face of the optical disk.