Patent ID: 7577214

Claim:
An OFDM signal receiver, including: a front end section for receiving an OFDM signal including a plurality of carriers in which pilot signals, having a predetermined complex amplitude, are superimposed, and generating a complex base area signal by performing frequency conversion processing and sampling processing on said OFDM signal; a symbol extraction section and FFT processing section for generating a frequency domain symbol signal from said complex base area signal; a receive data decoding section for demodulating said frequency domain symbol signal to generate receive data; a frequency deviation detection section for detecting the frequency deviation of a carrier included in said OFDM signal based on said frequency domain symbol signal; and a conversion frequency control section for adjusting a conversion frequency in the frequency conversion processing of said front end section based on said detected frequency deviation, wherein said frequency deviation detection section comprises: a symbol storage portion for locating and storing said frequency domain symbol signal in a two-dimensional data area on a two-dimensional space corresponding to a carrier frequency and a symbol time; a transfer characteristic calculation portion for calculating the transfer characteristic of a pilot signal included in the symbol signal located in said two-dimensional data area; a two-dimensional Fourier transform portion for performing two-dimensional Fourier transform on said calculated transfer characteristic of the pilot signal and locating the data group after said transform in a two-dimensional Fourier transform data area on a two-dimensional space corresponding to a transmission path delay time and transmission path fluctuation frequency; and a center-of-gravity calculation portion for determining a center-of-gravity value of said data group located in said two-dimensional Fourier transform data area and calculating the frequency deviation of said carrier based on said center-of-gravity value.