MUMBAI, India, Oct. 5 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202611100955 A) filed by Indian Institute Of Information Technology Allahabad on August 20, 2026, for An Image-Processing System For Spatial-Grid Distributional Evaluation And Selective Refinement In Diffusion-Based Free-Form Image Inpainting.

Inventors include Devendra Izardar; Jagriti Singh; and Prof. Shekhar Verma.

The application for the patent was published on October 02, 2026, under issue no. 40/2026.

Abstract: The present disclosure proposes an image-processing system (100) and method for diffusion-based free-form image inpainting. A context modelling engine (110) fits a multi-component Gaussian Mixture Model to known background pixels and ini...