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CSIRO to reap 'lazy billion' from world's biggest tech companies
- pierrefar 16y agoFrom the Slashdot coverage ( http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/22/1545238 http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/22/1545238 ) the patent is http://www.freepatentsonline.com/5487069.html http://www.freepatentsonline.com/5487069.html . 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.
- ars 16y agoLooks like it expires 2013-11-23.
- robryan 16y agoWell at least this money should be going to the good research work the CSIRO do rather than lining some patent trolls pocket.
- rubyrescue 16y agocan 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.
- retube 16y agoyeah good question. wild stab in the dark, but the image sharpening could be a technique using time-averaged signal positions. E.g a telescope mirror is not optically perfect and subject to tiny movements (wind, rain, ground tremors etc), not to mention of course light being refracted by the atmosphere. so what you do is observe a signal over time to get a statistical fix on its actual, real position. This may well involve Fourier-Transforms where you transform from "time space" to "space space" (not very well worded). I have a feeling Fourier transforms are used a lot in signal transmission and analysis.
- retube 16y agoI didn't know that mathematical equations could be patented. I'm pretty sure they can't in the UK.
- Daniel_Newby 16y agoThe use for a particular application with particular hardware can be patented. And if the hardware spec is broad enough ...