Patent ID: 8804866

Claim:
A digital broadcast receiver comprising: a plurality of tuning units that acquire, from among OFDM signals received with an antenna, OFDM signals of a tuned-to frequency band; a plurality of demodulation units that perform demodulation processes on a plurality of OFDM signals received from the plurality of tuning units; a diversity combining unit that receives equalized signals output from the plurality of demodulation units, calculates a weighing ratio, and performs combining of equalized signals for each one of at least two systems of reception, using the calculated weighting ratio; a decoding unit that performs decoding of the diversity combining results the decoding involving error correction; and a TS processing unit that performs processing of a plurality of pieces of TS packet data information output from the decoding unit, wherein the TS processing unit calculates a difference in acquisition timings between pieces of TS packet data information received from each one of the at least two systems of reception and feeds the calculated difference back to the diversity combining unit, the TS processing unit synchronizes a processing timing of the pieces of TS packet data information acquired from each one of the at least two systems of reception, by delaying a portion of the pieces of TS packet data information in accordance with the calculated difference in acquisition timings, and the diversity combining unit adjusts a difference in the acquisition timings between the equalized signals and uses the difference in the acquisition timings between the pieces of TS packet data information that were fed back to combine the equalized signals.