Patent ID: 8897278

Claim:
An OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) receiver for receiving an OFDM signal comprising a useful symbol period for transmitting a signal relating to data and a guard interval period for transmitting a signal that is the same as part of the signal transmitted in the useful symbol period, the OFDM receiver comprising: an interference wave cancel unit operable to cancel a narrow-band interference wave component relating to a narrow-band interference wave from an input OFDM signal, and output the OFDM signal from which the narrow-band interference wave component has been cancelled, as a cancel signal; a delay unit operable to delay the cancel signal output from the interference wave cancel unit by the useful symbol period, and output the delayed cancel signal, as a delay signal; a correlation detection unit operable to calculate a correlation between the cancel signal output from the interference wave cancel unit and the delay signal output from the delay unit, and output a correlation signal relating to the calculated correlation; and a timing detection unit operable to perform symbol synchronization processing based on the correlation signal output from the correlation detection unit; wherein the interference wave cancel unit controls a filter coefficient based on an autocorrelation of the input OFDM signal, and cancels the interference wave component by performing filtering based on the controlled filter coefficient, wherein the interference wave cancel unit includes a downsampling subunit operable to resample the input OFDM signal by decreasing a sampling frequency of the input OFDM signal, and output the resampled OFDM signal, as a resampled signal, wherein the interference wave cancel unit performs, on the resampled signal, processing for cancelling the narrow-band interference wave component, wherein the interference wave cancel unit performs processing for calculating the autocorrelation with use of the resampled signal, and wherein the downsampling subunit performs the resampling such that the sampling frequency of the resampled signal is less than a value of a frequency bandwidth of the input OFDM signal.