Patent ID: 8498355

Claim:
A transmission device which modulates and transmits transmission data of which a level of importance has been previously determined, comprising: a division unit configured to divide (1) a high-importance data string by one bit to generate high-importance bit data each having one bit and (2) a low-importance data string into low-importance bit data each having two bits; a bit addition unit configured to add a fixed value of one bit to each one bit of the high-importance bit data, to generate two bit high-importance bit data; and a modulation unit configured to perform modulation for arranging the two bit high-importance bit data generated and the two bit low-importance bit data to respective symbols based on the two bit data, wherein the fixed value is bit data which is common to, in an arrangement of the symbols, two symbols having a largest Euclidean distance, and a symbol including the high-importance data string is arranged to one of two symbols, among the symbols, having the largest Euclidean distance by adding the bit data having the fixed value.