Patent ID: 8885769

Claim:
A signal generation method for generating, from a plurality of baseband signals, a plurality of signals for transmission on a common frequency band and at a common time, comprising the steps of: performing a change of phase on each of a first baseband signal s 1 generated from a first set of bits and a second baseband signal s 2 generated from a second set of bits, thus generating a first post-phase change baseband signal s 1 ′ and a second post-phase change baseband signal s 2 ′; and applying weighting to the first post-phase change baseband signal s 1 ′ and to the second post-phase change baseband signal s 2 ′ according to a predetermined matrix F, thus generating a first weighted signal z 1 and a second weighted signal z 2 as the plurality of signals for transmission on the common frequency band and at the common time, wherein the first weighted signal z 1 and the second weighted signal z 2 satisfy the relation: ( z 1 ,z 2) T =F ( s 1 ′,s 2′) T , where (z 1 , z 2 ) T denotes a transposed matrix of (z 1 , z 2 ), and (s 1 ′, s 2 ′) T denotes a transposed matrix of (s 1 ′, s 2 ′), and the change of phase is performed on the first baseband signal s 1 and the second baseband signal s 2 using a phase modification value sequentially selected from among N phase modification value candidates, N being an integer equal to or greater than two and each of the N phase modification value candidates being selected at least once within a predetermined period.