Patent ID: 8098772

Claim:
A receiving apparatus comprising: a receiving section that receives a reception signal and outputs a reception quadrature baseband signal based on the reception signal; an amplitude distortion estimator that outputs an amplitude estimation signal estimating an amplitude distortion of the reception quadrature baseband signal, using a pilot symbol included in the reception quadrature baseband signal; and a frequency distortion estimator that outputs a frequency estimation signal estimating a frequency distortion of the reception quadrature baseband signal, using the pilot symbol included in the reception quadrature baseband signal, wherein the reception quadrature baseband signal includes the pilot symbol, first symbols placed both immediately before and after the pilot symbol, and data symbols; the pilot symbol is placed on an I axis or a Q axis on an IQ plane; and each of the first symbols is placed on the same axis as the pilot symbol and is placed at any one of a plurality of signal point candidates on the IQ plane.