Patent ID: 8010858

Claim:
A transmitting apparatus comprising: an encoding section that executes block encoding processing on transmission data comprising a plurality of bits to form blocks of block encoded data comprising the plurality of bits; an interleaving section that interleaves first bits belonging to the block encoded data such that one symbol is composed of second bits each of which belongs to any one block of the blocks of block encoded data; a modulation section that outputs a baseband signal that corresponds to the symbol, from the interleaved block encoded data; and a transmitting section that transmits a modulated signal that is based on the baseband signal, wherein: the modulation section employs a plurality of modulation schemes; and the interleaving section interleaves the first bits belonging to the block encoded data such that, even when an modulation scheme is employed, any two bits arbitrarily extracted from the second bits forming the symbol belong to different blocks of the block encoded data.