Patent ID: 7551678

Claim:
An Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) receiver apparatus having first and second OFDM receive circuits for demodulating respective ones of signals that have been transmitted utilizing two mutually orthogonal polarized waves, comprising: a single carrier wave generator provided in common for the OFDM receive circuits; and a frequency converter provided in each OFDM receive circuit for multiplying a radio signal by a carrier wave, which is output from said carrier wave generator to convert the radio signal to a baseband signal, and inputs said baseband signal to a demodulator provided in each OFDM receive circuit, wherein said OFDM receive circuits include: said demodulator for performing demodulation onto said baseband signal; a Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) arithmetic unit for applying FFT processing to the demodulated signal; an error signal generator for generating an error signal based upon each carrier signal obtained by the FFT arithmetic unit; a cross-polarization interference canceller for generating a cross-polarization interference compensating signal using said error signal and a demodulated signal from the other OFDM receive circuit; and a correcting unit for correcting an output signal of said demodulator by adding the cross-polarization interference compensating signal to said output signal.