Patent ID: 8824526

Claim:
An apparatus for providing a baseband signal for exploiting receive antenna diversity by means of a digital baseband processor, the apparatus comprising: a first combiner configured to temporally alternately select samples of a first received signal corresponding to a first receive antenna and samples of a second received signal corresponding to a second receive antenna and to interleave the selected samples of the first and second received signals to obtain a temporally continuous stream of samples of a baseband representation of a first combined signal at an output of the first combiner as the baseband signal for exploiting receive antenna diversity; a second combiner configured to temporally delay the first received signal corresponding to the first receive antenna with respect to the second received signal corresponding to the second receive antenna, and to add the delayed first received signal and the second received signal to obtain a second combined signal; and a selector configured to provide, based on an estimated signal quality of the first and/or the second received signal, a baseband representation of one of the first or the second combined signal as the baseband signal for exploiting receive antenna diversity.