THE ENGINE
One score. Five reasons behind it.
A single embedding can tell you two images are alike. It can’t tell you why, and it can’t be defended. Tracor scores every candidate on five independent signals, each measuring a different property a designer would recognize, then combines them into one composite you can take apart.
THE COMPOSITE
Five inputs, one score, every part visible.
Five independent signals feed a single composite. No one of them decides on its own, and every alert carries the per-signal breakdown, so a match is never a black box you have to trust.
THE SIGNALS
What each one measures.
Motif geometry
The shape of individual elements - a petal, a paisley, a geometric form - independent of where they sit or what color they are. Catches a motif that has been recolored or rearranged.
Layout and arrangement
How elements are distributed across the repeat - spacing, density, the structure of the tiling. Two patterns can share motifs and still differ entirely in arrangement.
Local region similarity
Correspondence at the fragment level, region against region. Surfaces partial reuse, where a portion of a design appears inside a larger, otherwise different composition.
Color and texture
Palette relationships and surface character. Deliberately weighted light - colorway changes are the easiest thing to alter, so color agreement corroborates but never carries a match.
Combined embedding
A learned representation of the design as a whole - the overall visual impression, closest to how a person perceives two patterns as related before analyzing why. It anchors the composite; the other four explain it.
CALIBRATION
Bands, not verdicts.
Scores resolve into calibrated bands rather than a yes or no. Only candidates that clear the threshold become alerts, and what the band means is a judgment for you and your counsel, never for the system.
Calibration is done against real legal-corpus data drawn from decided fabric-design cases, not synthetic augmentation. Patent pending.
THE FRAMEWORK
Structured to what attorneys cite.
Output is organized around the abstraction-filtration-comparison analysis from L.A. Printex Industries v. Aeropostale, the framework fabric-design attorneys work in. Every alert carries the methodology, the per-signal scores, and the source provenance behind the match.
Tracor reports technical observations. It does not reach legal conclusions - that judgment belongs to you and your counsel.