To provide a technology of reducing a transmission amount in the case of video transmission through a transmission path under a deteriorated noise environment such as a wireless transmission path.
A retransmission wait section 86 in a multicast receiver disclosed herein receives reception packets 79 from three DOWN receiving sections 85 of seats 71 to 73, stores one program data part when any of the packets is effective, particularizes which part is missing as to a missing program data part, outputs information denoting the particularized part as missing information 76, and outputs the stored program data parts together with retransmitted program data parts later as a program packet 78. A retransmission request section 88 requests retransmission of missing packets indicated by the missing information 76.
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OTA YOSHITAKA
Shuji Matsumura
Kobayashi Kunito
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