Adaptive beam steering reception system for ISDB-T based on pre-FFT diversity technique

The reception of high-definition television in a mobile environment with the same quality as that achieved at home has been considered to be difficult to achieve. In an attempt to solve this problem, we have developed an adaptive beam steering reception system and evaluated the performance of this new system by both indoor and outdoor experiments involving the reception of high-definition television. The experimental results revealed that the reception performance was significantly improved, such that terrestrial digital television broadcasts can be received in high-speed moving environments, and with the same stability as broadcasts that are received at home in a fixed reception area.