Patent ID: 7929994

Claim:
A base station apparatus comprising: a control information extraction section that extracts control information relating to encoding that the base station apparatus performs in conjunction with one or more other base station apparatuses, the control information being extracted from a header portion of a data frame that is included in a signal transmitted from a base station control apparatus; a pilot symbol addition section that adds a known pilot symbol to a transmission signal according to the extracted control information; and an encoding section that forms, according to the extracted control information, an encoding series signal, from the transmission signal that includes the pilot symbol, wherein: the control information extraction section extracts, as the control information, a number of the one or more other base station apparatuses in conjunction with which the base station apparatus performs the encoding and a stream number that the base station apparatus transmits; and the encoding section generates plurality of space-time codes when the number of the one or more other base station apparatuses is extracted and there are a plurality of stream numbers corresponding to a plurality of streams that the base station apparatus transmits.