Patent ID: 8897392

Claim:
A transmit diversity method applied to a transmitting system, the transmitting system comprising at least two transmission paths, each of the at least two transmission paths has a channel coefficient, the method includes the steps of: receiving a serial stream, and transforming the serial stream into a plurality of parallel streams, wherein each parallel stream is carried by a corresponding sub-carrier; and in light of each sub-carrier, selecting a single transmission path from the at least two transmission paths of the transmitting system by comparing energies of a plurality of channel coefficients corresponding to the at least two transmission paths on the sub-carrier, so as to transmit the parallel stream carried by the sub-carrier; wherein the each channel coefficient is defined by y=h*s+N, where y is a receiving signal of the sub-carrier on the corresponding transmission path, h is the channel coefficient, s is a transmitting signal of the sub-carrier, and N is noise.