Patent ID: 7424073

Claim:
An Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) receiver for receiving an OFDM signal, a symbol defining a transmission unit of the OFDM signal being produced by dividing data streams into a plurality of carriers which are within a predetermined bandwidth and which are modulated with orthogonal modulation, said OFDM receiver comprising: a first system comprising an antenna which receives said OFDM signal and transform means for transforming said OFDM signal into a first carrier domain signal per said symbol; and a second system comprising an antenna which receives said OFDM signal and transform means for transforming said OFDM signal into a second carrier domain signal per said symbol; and composite means for generating a composite signal of a plurality of carriers transformed by said transform means of said first system and a plurality of carriers transformed by said transform means of said second system, wherein said composite means uses diversity characterized by adaptively combining each carrier transformed by said transform means of said first system and the same carrier transformed by said transform means of said second system; wherein said composite means comprises: difference value calculation means for calculating a difference value between a signal generated from a plurality of synchronizing signals included in said first carrier domain signal and a signal generated from a plurality of synchronizing signals included in said second carrier domain signal; reciprocal calculation means for calculating a reciprocal of said difference value calculated by said difference value calculation means; first multiplication means for multiplying said first carrier domain signal and said difference value calculated by said difference value calculation means; second multiplication means for multiplying said second carrier domain signal and said reciprocal of said difference value calculated by said reciprocal calculation means; and addition means for adding a result of the multiplication by said first multiplication means and a result of the multiplication by said second multiplication means.