Patent ID: 8605820

Claim:
A transmitter comprising: a channel encoder configured to encode information bits to generate coded bits; a bit separation unit configured to separate the coded bits into systematic bits and parity bits; and a mapper comprising: a first mapping unit configured to map the systematic bits among the coded bits according to an anti-gray mapping scheme to generate a first data symbol; a second mapping unit configured to map parity bits among the coded bits according to a gray mapping scheme to generate a second data symbol; and a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) precoder configured to perform MIMO precoding on the first data symbol and the second data symbol using a space-time block code (STBC) which applies ¾ orthogonal STBC structure, wherein the STBC is expressed as follows: C = [ z 1 z 2 z 3 0 - z 2 * z 1 * 0 - z 3 - z 3 * 0 z 1 * z 2 0 z 3 * - z 2 z 1 ] , where z j denotes a j-th symbol signal transmitted.