Abstract: An anomaly detection device includes: an obtainer that obtains tapping sound information indicating a tapping sound generated by tapping a tile that is bonded; and a detector that detects, from the tapping sound information, whether an anomaly is present in an adhesion state of the tile, based on a difference between rise times of sounds at respective frequencies in a predetermined frequency band that includes an inaudible range.

Abstract: An OFDM reception device detects a time at which impulse noise occurs in a received OFDM signal, and specifies a start position candidate period that does not have intersymbol interference and is estimated to have a guard interval signal in a symbol. When setting a FFT window of an effective symbol length in a symbol duration of each symbol, if the impulse noise occurrence time is included in the symbol, the OFDM reception device determines a start position of the FFT window within a range of the start position candidate period so as to exclude the impulse noise occurrence time as much as possible.

Abstract: A mobile receiver performs oblique interpolation in such a direction that a symbol number increases by one and a carrier number decreases by three with respect to a position of each Scattered Pilot Signal to interpolate a first signal whose channel characteristics have not been obtained. The mobile receiver then performs, in a frequency axis direction, frequency axis interpolation to interpolate channel characteristics of a second signal whose channel characteristics have not been obtained, using the estimated channel characteristics and the interpolated channel characteristics.

Abstract: A receiving device performs reception in a service period of a broadcast signal and switches to a power saving mode in a non-service period. The service period is composed of a first period during which an application data table of an MPE-FEC frame is transmitted and a second period, following the first period, during which an RS data table of the MPE-FEC frame is transmitted. An error correction unit 12 performs one of error correction that uses the whole RS data table according to MPE-FEC, and erasure correction that uses a same number of parity bytes as bytes having bit errors. When the bit errors are corrected by the error correction unit 12 performing erasure correction, a power control unit 30 switches a receiving circuit to a power saving mode before the second period ends.

Abstract: Disclosed is an OFDM signal receiving apparatus for diversity reception, with a plurality of antennas, of an OFDM signal containing Y sub-carriers, where 2X?1<Y<2X and X>1. The OFDM signal receiving apparatus includes a plurality of receiving systems, and a diversity processing unit connected to the receiving systems and fed with sequences of data on sub-carriers demodulated by the respective receiving systems. At least one of the receiving systems includes an FFT circuit for Fast Fourier transforming, in parallel, only a sequence of data on 2Z sub-carriers contained in the OFDM signal received with a corresponding antenna, where X>Z. The diversity processing unit performs a diversity process on sequences of data on sub-carriers, out of all the Y sub-carries, redundantly demodulated.

Abstract: An OFDM reception device detects a time at which impulse noise occurs in a received OFDM signal, and specifies a start position candidate period that does not have intersymbol interference and is estimated to have a guard interval signal in a symbol. When setting a FFT window of an effective symbol length in a symbol duration of each symbol, if the impulse noise occurrence time is included in the symbol, the OFDM reception device determines a start position of the FFT window within a range of the start position candidate period so as to exclude the impulse noise occurrence time as much as possible.

Abstract: To improve the reception performance of a mobile receiver for a digital broadcasting by OFDM method, the present invention focuses on the arrangement of the SP signals. The present invention performs oblique interpolation in such a direction that a symbol number increases by one and a carrier number decreases by three with respect to a position of each Scattered Pilot Signal to interpolate a first signal whose channel characteristics have not been obtained, and then performs, in a frequency axis direction, frequency axis interpolation to interpolate channel characteristics of a second signal whose channel characteristics have not been obtained, using the estimated channel characteristics and the interpolated channel characteristics.

Abstract: A receiving device performs reception in a service period of a broadcast signal and switches to a power saving mode in a non-service period. The service period is composed of a first period during which an application data table of an MPE-FEC frame is transmitted and a second period, following the first period, during which an RS data table of the MPE-FEC frame is transmitted. An error correction unit 12 performs one of error correction that uses the whole RS data table according to MPE-FEC, and erasure correction that uses a same number of parity bytes as bytes having bit errors. When the bit errors are corrected by the error correction unit 12 performing erasure correction, a power control unit 30 switches a receiving circuit to a power saving mode before the second period ends.

Abstract: Disclosed is an OFDM signal receiving apparatus for diversity reception, with a plurality of antennas, of an OFDM signal containing Y sub-carriers, where 2X?1<Y<2X and X>1. The OFDM signal receiving apparatus includes a plurality of receiving systems, and a diversity processing unit connected to the receiving systems and fed with sequences of data on sub-carriers demodulated by the respective receiving systems. At least one of the receiving systems includes an FFT circuit for Fast Fourier transforming, in parallel, only a sequence of data on 2Z sub-carriers contained in the OFDM signal received with a corresponding antenna, where X>Z. The diversity processing unit performs a diversity process on sequences of data on sub-carriers, out of all the Y sub-carries, redundantly demodulated.