Patent ID: 7245676

Claim:
An adaptive equalizer comprising: a first correlation section that calculates a cross-correlation between inputs of a received signal converted to a baseband signal and a known signal of said received signal which is known to a receiver before the reception; a second correlation section that calculates a correlation inverse matrix created from auto-correlation values obtained between said known signals; a matrix calculation section that receives the output of said first correlation section and the output of said second correlation section as inputs and carries out a matrix multiplication; a selection section that selects the output of said matrix calculation section and the output of said first correlation section; a correlation window size control section that changes the correlation window size of said first correlation section; and a transmission path situation decision section that decides the situation of the transmission path from the information indicating the previous reception performance and generates respective control signals indicating whether or not to cause said correlation window size control section to change the correlation window size, which output should be selected by said selection section and whether or not to cause said matrix calculation section to carry out a calculation operation.