CSIRO to reap 'lazy billion' from world's biggest tech companies

Well at least this money should be going to the good research work the CSIRO do rather than lining some patent trolls pocket.

From the Slashdot coverage ( <a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/22/1545238" rel="nofollow">http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/22/1545238</a> ) the patent is <a href="http://www.freepatentsonline.com/5487069.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.freepatentsonline.com/5487069.html</a> . That was filed in 1993, but the OP said filing was in '92. The '92 filing could have been the Australian filing as opposed to the US one a few months later.

can someone explain how image sharpening technology applies to wifi in layman's terms. i'm fascinated by this type of thing but generally don't have the math skills to understand or know where to look.

I didn't know that mathematical equations could be patented. I'm pretty sure they can't in the UK.