Patent ID: 6262699
Filing Date: 2001-07-17
Classification: G09G

Abstract:
A method of driving a plasma display panel which has a plurality of pairs of row electrodes and a plurality of column electrodes, said plurality of column electrodes being arranged so as to cross said pairs of row electrodes and forming discharge cells at intersections of said pairs of row electrodes and said column electrodes, said method performing, when driving said plasma display panel to emit light, an operation of dividing one field of display period into a plurality of subfields, each subfield being composed of an address period and a sustain discharge period so as to display an image, said address period in which, immediately after applying a priming pulse of a predetermined polarity to one of said pair of row electrodes, a scan pulse of an opposite polarity to the polarity of said priming pulse is applied to said row electrode and simultaneously a pixel data pulse is applied to said column electrode whereby lighting discharge cells and un-lighting discharge cells are set in response to said pixel data pulse, said sustain discharge period for holding said lighting discharge cells and said un-lighting discharge cells discharged by applying a sustain pulse to said pair of row electrodes,wherein ones of said pairs of row electrodes are divided into first and second row electrode groups and said scan pulse is applied to one row electrode of said second row electrode group immediately after applying said scan pulse to one row electrode of said first row electrode group, and wherein an overlap only partially exists between a period of application of a priming pulse to a row electrode of said first electrode group immediately before a scanning pulse and a period of application of a priming pulse to a row electrode of said second electrode group immediately before a scanning pulse.