Patent ID: 8194702

Claim:
A transmission apparatus comprising: a signal generator that transmits a transmission symbol including a first symbol component and a second symbol component having a higher reception quality at a reception apparatus than that of the first symbol component, using at least a first radio resource and a second radio resource, each radio resource being configured to perform transmission at a specified combination of a frequency and a time, wherein the signal generator transmits the transmission symbol over both of the first radio resource and the second radio resource by transmitting the first symbol component using the first radio resource and by transmitting the second symbol component by using the second radio resource; a layer multiplexer configured to assign a first bit sequence that includes information from at least a first information source to the first symbol component and a second bit sequence that includes at least information from a second information source having a higher priority level than that of the first bit sequence to the second symbol component, respectively, and assign, respectively, the first radio resource to the first bit sequence and a second radio resource to the second bit sequence in accordance with a state of a communication with the reception apparatus, the layer multiplexer further being configured to receive information from a third information source, wherein each of the information from the first information source, the second information source, and the third information source is information to be transmitted to a reception apparatus via radio transmission; and a layer coder configured to perform a layer coding processing for generating the transmission symbol in accordance with assignment by an assign unit, wherein the layer multiplexer is configured to assign, the first bit sequence with a length corresponding to an amount of transmittable data available in the first radio resource, to the first symbol component, and assign the second bit sequence with a length corresponding to an amount of transmittable data available in the second radio resource, to the second symbol component, and when a respective one of the first bit sequence and the second bit sequence does not have a length corresponding to the amount of transmittable data available in the first radio resource or the second radio resource respectively, the layer multiplexer adds the information from the third information source to the respective one of the first bit sequence and the second bit sequence.