Reception apparatus, reception method, and program

1. A reception apparatus comprising:

circuitry configured to

detect the presence or absence of spectrum inversion in data transmitted by a multi-carrier transmission system based on whether a known signal can be decoded from data transmitted via carriers used for transmitting said known signal, and

correct the data transmitted by said multi-carrier transmission system when the presence of spectrum inversion is detected.

2. The reception apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the circuitry is further configured to:

perform a Fast Fourier Transform operation on a received signal,

read carrier indexes differently and, based on the differently read carrier indexes, to deinterleave the data obtained by the Fast Fourier Transform operation from each carrier, and

output I and Q data switched in positions thereof after being obtained by the deinterleave operation.

3. The reception apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein said circuitry decodes said known signal using the data obtained by the Fast Fourier Transform operation from each carrier but yet to be deinterleaved.

4. The reception apparatus according to claim 3 , wherein said circuitry detects the absence of spectrum inversion when said known signal can be decoded using the data transmitted by the carriers used for transmitting said known signal on the assumption that spectrum inversion is absent, and detects the presence of spectrum inversion when said known signal can be decoded using the data transmitted by the carriers used for transmitting said known signal on the assumption that spectrum inversion is present.

5. The reception apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein said multi-carrier transmission system complies with the Digital Terrestrial Multimedia Broadcast standard,

said known signal is system information included in each frame, and

said circuitry subtracts the carrier index of each carrier except 0 from 3780 so as to use the difference as the differently read carrier index thereof.

6. The reception apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the circuitry is further configured to:

perform a Fast Fourier Transform operation on a received signal,

deinterleave the data obtained by the Fast Fourier Transform operation from each carrier based on the carrier index thereof that is either read as is or read differently, and

wherein said circuitry outputs I and Q data switched in positions thereof after being obtained by the deinterleave operation based on the differently read carrier indexes.

7. The reception apparatus according to claim 6 , wherein said circuitry decodes said known signal using the deinterleaved data.

8. The reception apparatus according to claim 7 , wherein said circuitry detects the absence of spectrum inversion if said known signal can be decoded when the deinterleave operation is performed without reading the carrier indexes differently, and detects the presence of spectrum inversion if said known signal can be decoded when the deinterleave operation is performed by reading the carrier indexes differently.

9. The reception apparatus according to claim 6 , wherein said multi-carrier transmission system complies with the Digital Terrestrial Multimedia Broadcast standard;

said known signal is system information included in each frame,

upon reading the carrier indexes differently, said circuitry subtracts the carrier index of each carrier except 0 from 3780 so as to use the difference as the differently read carrier index thereof, and

said circuitry decodes said system information based on the data transmitted by the carriers having carrier indexes ranging from 0 to 35.

10. A reception method comprising:

detecting the presence or absence of spectrum inversion in data transmitted by a multi-carrier transmission system based on whether a known signal can be decoded from data transmitted via carriers used for transmitting said known signal; and

correcting the data transmitted by said multi-carrier transmission system when the presence of spectrum inversion is detected.

11. A non-transitory computer-readable medium encoded with computer-readable instructions thereon, the computer-readable instruction when executed by a computer cause the computer to perform a method comprising:

detecting the presence or absence of spectrum inversion in data transmitted by a multi-carrier transmission system based on whether a known signal can be decoded from data transmitted via carriers used for transmitting said known signal; and

correcting the data transmitted by said multi-carrier transmission system when the presence of spectrum inversion is detected.