Patent ID: 8908785

Claim:
A receiving apparatus that diversity-receives a transmission signal of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing system, the receiving apparatus comprising: a correction coefficient calculation unit that obtains correction coefficients according to a magnitude relation of an intensity of a reception signal of each branch, the correction coefficients being smaller in branches with smaller reception signal intensities; a Fourier transformer that performs Fourier transform on the reception signal for each branch to output sub-carrier signals corresponding to respective sub-carriers; a transmission path response estimation unit that estimates a transmission path response for each of the sub-carrier signals for each branch; and a combining unit that corrects, for each sub-carrier, when obtaining a combined signal by maximum ratio combining by performing a weighted addition on the sub-carrier signal of each branch based on the transmission path response of each branch estimated by the transmission path response estimation unit, a weighting coefficient with each of the correction coefficients calculated by the correction coefficient calculation unit.