Soft decision signal outputting receiver

A soft decision signal outputting receiver, comprising:

• a demodulator for modulating a burst signal and outputting a hard decision signal;
• a reliability information production circuit for receiving demodulation process information from said demodulator and producing reliability information regarding the hard decision signal;
• a soft decision signal production circuit for producing a soft decision signal from the hard decision signal and the reliability information;
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• changing means for changing the production method for reliability information for each plurality of symbol times based on signal quality information for the plurality of symbol times.

A soft decision signal outputting receiver, comprising:

• a demodulator for modulating a burst signal and outputting a hard decision signal;
• a reliability information production circuit for receiving demodulation process information from said demodulator and producing reliability information regarding the hard decision signal;
• a reliability information correction circuit for correcting the reliability information based on signal quality information for each plurality of symbol times to obtain a corrected reliability information value;
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• a soft decision signal production circuit for producing a soft decision signal from the hard decision signal and the corrected reliability information value.

A soft decision signal outputting receiver, comprising:

• a demodulator for modulating a burst signal and outputting a hard decision signal;
• a reliability information production circuit for receiving demodulation process information from said demodulator and producing reliability information regarding the hard decision signal;
• a soft decision signal production circuit for producing a tentative soft decision signal from the hard decision signal and the reliability information;
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• a soft decision signal correction circuit for correcting the tentative soft decision signal based on signal quality information for each plurality of symbol times and outputting the corrected soft decision signal as a soft decision signal.