| CPC H04N 21/23424 (2013.01) [H04N 5/265 (2013.01); H04N 21/25891 (2013.01); H04N 21/2743 (2013.01); H04N 21/4854 (2013.01)] | 20 Claims |

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1. A method comprises:
capturing, in a streamer device, a user video stream from a user comprising at least a first image and a second image;
determining, in the streamer device, a first image of a marker in the first image, wherein the marker is located at a first marker location in the first image;
determining, in the streamer device, a second image of the marker in the second image, wherein the marker is located at a second marker location in the second image;
receiving, in the streamer device from a remote provider server, incoming object data associated with an object;
determining, in the streamer device, first characteristics associated with the object in response to the first image of the marker and the incoming object data;
determining, in the streamer device, second characteristics associated with the object in response to the second image of the marker and the incoming object data;
rendering, in the streamer device, a first image of the object in response to the first characteristics associated with the object and the incoming data associated with the object;
rendering, in the streamer device, a second image of the object in response to the second characteristics associated with the object and the incoming data associated with the object;
forming, in the streamer device, a composite user video stream comprising a first composite image and a second composite image, wherein the first composite image is determined in response to the first image and the first image of the object, and wherein the second composite image is determined in response to the second image and the second image of the object;
sending, from the streamer device to a video distribution server, the composite user video stream;
receiving, in the streamer device from the video distribution server, video consumption data associated with the composite user video stream provided by the video distribution server;
sending, from the streamer device to the remote provider server, the video consumption data associated with the composite user video, data associated with the first image of the object, and data associated with the second image of the object.
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