Patent ID: 6140984
Filing Date: 2000-10-31
Classification: G09G

Abstract:
A method of operating a plasma display panel provided with first electrode arrays arranged in rows, each thereof formed of a pair of first and second electrodes, and second electrode arrays arranged in columns, each thereof formed of a third electrode, each of the first and second arrays being sandwiched between substrates, display cells being formed at crosspoints of respective first and second electrodes, an address discharge process for writing information by applying a pulse to a selected second electrode and a selected third electrode , and the written information being displayed by a sustain discharge produced by applying, in accordance with the information written as a result of the address discharge process, a sustain pulse to the first and second electrodes, the method comprising:controlling the address discharge process such that a potential difference provided by a selection potential for the first electrode and occurring across a second gap between the first and second electrodes selected for the sustain discharge, is greater than a potential difference provided by a non-selection potential for the first electrode and occurring across a first gap between the first and second electrodes not selected for the sustain discharge.