Patent ID: 6922453

Claim:
A diversity receiver for receiving modulated signals each modulated with a data string coded for error correction, the diversity receiver comprising: a plurality of antennas for receiving, independently of each other, the modulated signals; detecting means for detecting the modulated signals received by the antennas, and obtaining a plurality of detected data strings: error detecting means for detecting the numbers of error symbols and error locations in the respective detected data strings; branch selecting means for selecting one of branches composed of the antennas, detecting means, and the error detecting means; output generating means for outputting a result obtained by carrying out, with reference to the error locations detected by the error detecting means, error correction on one of the detected data strings that corresponds to a selection result indicating the branch selected by the branch selecting means; selection result storage means for storing the selection result of the branch selecting means; and priority information generating means for generating priority information indicating priority in branch selection based on the selection result stored in the selection result storage means, wherein the branch selecting means selects the branch based on the numbers of error symbols detected by the error detecting means and the priority information generated by the priority information generating means.