Patent ID: 8594242

Claim:
A method of receiving a plurality of multiplexed modulation signals, the method comprising: receiving the plurality of multiplexed modulation signals each of which being transmitted from a plurality of antennas of a communication partner, wherein each modulation signal in the multiplexed modulation signals includes a pilot symbol sequence consisting of a plurality of pilot symbols used for demodulation, wherein each of the pilot symbol sequences is inserted at the same temporal points in said each modulation signal in the multiplexed modulation signals, and wherein the pilot symbol sequences are orthogonal to each other with zero cross correlation among the modulation signals in the multiplexed modulation signals, each pilot symbol having a non-zero amplitude, a quantity of the plurality of pilot symbols in each sequence being greater than a quantity of the modulation signals in the multiplexed modulation signals; estimating a transmission path distortion of said each modulation signal based on the plurality of received multiplexed modulation signals; and demodulating said each modulation signal in the plurality of received multiplexed modulation signals using the transmission path distortion.