Patent ID: 6710755
Filing Date: 2004-03-23
Classification: G09G

Abstract:
A plasma display panel drive method for driving a plasma display panel in which a discharge cell, corresponding to one pixel, is formed at each intersection of row electrodes, each corresponding to each of a plurality of display lines, and column electrodes which are aligned so as to intersect with said row electrodes,said plasma display panel drive method comprising: grouping said plurality of display lines into a plurality of display line groups; executing a reset process, by which reset discharge is made to occur to initialize all of said discharge cells to an emitting cell state, only in the first of a plurality of display period divisions that constitute a unit display period for an input video signal, in each of said display period divisions, executing a pixel data writing process, by which each of said discharge cells is set to either said emitting cell state or a non-emitting cell state in accordance with pixel data corresponding to said input video signal, and executing an emission sustaining process, by which sustained discharge is caused so that emitting cells belonging to one of said plurality of display line groups is made to emit light, between executions, in the same display period division, of said pixel data writing process for said discharge cells belonging to said one of said plurality of display line groups and said pixel data writing process for said discharge cells belonging to another one of said plurality of display line groups.