Transmitter and receiver

A receiver comprising:

• a plurality of demodulating means for receiving and demodulating a modulated signal to recover a coded signal, said modulated signal comprising a carrier modulated with said coded signal, said coded signal comprising a plural-bit digital signal resulting from A/D conversion of an analog input signal, and being divided into a plurality of blocks, each of said blocks having a parity bit attached thereto;
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• decoding means to which corresponding ones of said coded signals are inputted from said plurality of demodulating means, said decoding means making a parity check on respective ones of blocks of said corresponding coded signals and selecting and outputting error-free ones of the corresponding blocks of said corresponding coded signals.

A receiver comprising:

• a plurality of demodulating means for receiving and demodulating a modulated signal to recover a coded signal, said modulated signal comprising a carrier modulated with said coded signal, said coded signal comprising a plural-bit digital signal resulting from A/D conversion of an analog input signal, and being divided into a plurality of blocks, each of said blocks having a parity bit attached thereto;
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• decoding means to which corresponding ones of said coded signals are inputted from said plurality of demodulating means, said decoding means making a parity check on respective ones of blocks of said corresponding coded signals, selecting one of said corresponding coded signals that has a lower error rate, and outputting the selected coded signal with an error-containing block thereof replaced by a corresponding error-free block of other one of said corresponding coded signals.