Patent ID: 7675981

Claim:
An orthogonal frequency division multiplex (OFDM) signal demodulator circuit for receiving an OFDM signal with a given tuner and demodulating the received OFDM signal, wherein in the OFDM signal, information is divided into a plurality of carriers and orthogonally modulated, said OFDM signal demodulator circuit comprising: a gain acquisition circuit for acquiring a gain of the OFDM signal received by the given tuner; a Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) processing circuit for converting the received OFDM signal into a frequency domain signal by performing FFT operation processing, and for outputting the carriers included in the frequency domain signal; a storage circuit for storing a plurality of phase correction coefficients for correcting phases of the carriers outputted by the FFT processing circuit based on the gain of the received OFDM signal in a frequency axis direction, wherein each phase correction coefficient is stored in association with one of a plurality of different gains and in accordance with a phase change of each of the carriers in the frequency axis direction on the given tuner; a synchronizing signal extraction circuit for extracting a synchronizing signal having a predetermined electric power and a predetermined phase from the carriers outputted by the FFT processing circuit, and for outputting the extracted synchronizing signal; a symbol filter circuit for outputting a symbol filter coefficient acquired by calculating a correction quantity to be applied in correcting the carriers outputted by the FFT processing circuit in a time axis direction based on the synchronizing signal outputted by the synchronizing signal extraction circuit; a phase correction circuit for extracting a phase correction coefficient from the storage circuit based on the gain of the received OFDM signal acquired by the gain acquisition circuit, for inputting the symbol filter coefficient from the symbol filter circuit, and for outputting the symbol filter coefficient corrected based on the extracted phase correction coefficient to correct the phase change that has occurred on the given tuner in the frequency axis direction; a carrier filter circuit for outputting a carrier filter coefficient acquired by calculating a correction quantity to be applied in further correcting the symbol filter coefficient outputted from the phase correction circuit in the frequency axis direction; and a dividing circuit for performing waveform equivalence processing to the carriers outputted from the FFT processing circuit by dividing a carrier outputted from the FFT processing circuit by the carrier filter coefficient outputted from the carrier filter circuit.