Patent ID: 7010323

Claim:
A radio communication apparatus comprising: (a) a radio unit for receiving first sound data conforming to a first format and second sound data conforming to a second format; (b) a format discriminator for discriminating said first format and said second format; and (c) a controller for performing a process according to a discrimination result by said format discriminator; wherein said controller comprising: (i) a data error detector for detecting a first error in said first sound data according to said first format when said first format is discriminated by said format discriminator and for detecting a second error in said second sound data according to said second format when said second format is discriminated by said format discriminator; (ii) a data error value determining section for determining a first error value which corresponds to type of said first error and a second error value which corresponds to type of said second error; (iii) a data processor for processing said first sound data and said second sound data according to said first error value and said second error value, respectively.