Patent ID: 6865378

Claim:
A radio reception apparatus, comprising: first and second antennae for receiving data from a transmission side; a first RF section for performing a frequency conversion process of the reception data from said first antenna; a second RF section for performing a frequency conversion process of the reception data from said second antenna; first and second carrier detection sections for discriminating presence/absence of a carrier based on RSSI signals from said first and second RF sections, respectively; a comparison section for comparing reception levels of the RSSI signals from said first and second RF sections with each other to select that one of the RSSI signals which has a higher reception level and supplying a signal representative of the selected reception level to that one of said first and second carrier detection sections which corresponds to that one of said first and second RF sections from which the selected signal has been outputted; an equalization processing section including an equalizer; and control means for supplying, based on carrier sense signals outputted from said first and second carrier detection sections, the reception data signal outputted from that one of said first and second RF sections which has a higher reception sensitivity to said equalization processing section and controlling said equalization processing section to operate based on the reception data signal.