Electrical cable interface for electronic camera

DETAILED DESCRIPTION What is claimed is: 1.
A video camera system comprising: an electronic camera head comprising: a solid-state video imager for providing a video signal waveform comprising analog video signals, and timing generating circuitry for generating horizontal and vertical synchronizing signals and a pixel clock signal; a host video processor, located externally from the electronic camera head for receiving the analog video signals from the solid-state video imager and the horizontal and vertical synchronizing signals and the pixel clock signal from the timing generating circuitry, comprising: an analog to digital converter for converting the analog video signals to digital video signals, and digital signal processing circuitry for processing the digital video signals; and an electrical cable for carrying the video signal waveform from the electronic camera head and the horizontal and vertical synchronizing signals and the pixel clock signal to the host video processor.
2.
The video camera system of claim 1 wherein said camera head further comprises an adder circuit for adding the horizontal and vertical synchronizing signals to the video signal waveform to form a combined analog video signal waveform.
3.
The video camera system of claim 2 wherein the adder circuit further adds the pixel clock signal to the combined analog video signal waveform.
4.
The video camera system of claim 3 wherein the host video processor further comprises a filtering circuit for receiving and extracting the horizontal and vertical synchronizing signals from the combined analog video signal waveform.
5.
The video camera system of claim 4 wherein the filtering circuit further extracts the pixel clock signal from the combined analog video signal waveform.
6.
The video camera system of claim 1 wherein the electronic camera head further comprises a demodulator for receiving the analog video signals and generating demodulated video signals by extracting a reset pulse carrier signal from the analog video signals