Patent ID: 6934553

Claim:
A receiving unit for receiving and demodulating signals sent from a base station, the unit comprising: a receiving section for receiving signals sent from the base station and transmitted via a plurality of paths; a path detecting section for detecting timing of each of the plurality of paths via which the received signals received by the receiving section were transmitted; and a path detection range setting section for setting a range where a path is detected by the path detecting section on the basis of information indicative of path timing detected by the path detecting section, and wherein the path detecting section includes a path selection section for selecting n paths in descending order of power of the received signals from among a plurality of paths detected as effective multipaths, the path detection range setting section includes a detection range calculation section for setting the range where a path is detected by the path detecting section to a range narrower than a maximum detection range so that the range will include all n effective multipaths selected, and the path detection range setting section initializes the range where a path is detected to the maximum detection range every predetermined cycle.