Patent ID: 7212793

Claim:
A radio reception apparatus comprising: a plurality of antenna sections, each of the antenna sections receiving a multicarrier signal which is modulated according to multicarrier modulation; a plurality of carrier selection sections, each of the carrier selection sections selecting at least one subcarrier signal for each of the plurality of antenna sections out of the multicarrier signal received by each of the plurality of antenna sections; an antenna selection section which selects a reception antenna section from among the plurality of antenna sections based on signal strengths of the subcarrier signals selected by the plurality of carrier selection sections; a demodulation section which demodulates the multicarrier signal received by the antenna section selected by the antenna selection section; and a reception strength measurement section which measures the reception strength of the multicarrier signal, wherein each of the plurality of carrier selection sections selects at least one pilot carrier signal out of the multicarrier signal, the antenna selection section selects the reception antenna section from among the plurality of antenna sections based on the signal strengths of the pilot carrier signals selected by the plurality of carrier selection sections, and the antenna selection section selects the reception antenna section from among the plurality of antenna sections based on the signal strengths of the pilot carrier signals selected by the plurality of carrier selection sections and the reception strength of the multicarrier signal.