Patent ID: 6642663
Filing Date: 2003-11-04
Classification: G09G

Abstract:
A method for driving a plasma display panel, said plasma display panel including a plurality of pairs of surface discharge electrodes each said pair of said surface discharge electrodes being made up of a scanning electrode and a sustaining electrode and each said scanning electrode and said sustaining electrode being formed successively in a column direction and being parallel to a row direction and a plurality of data electrodes each being formed successively in the row direction and being parallel to said column direction, forming pixels at intersections of said plurality of said data electrodes and said plurality of said pairs of surface discharge electrodes, and discharge space existing in a gap between a plane on which said plurality of said pairs of said surface discharge electrodes is formed and a plane on which said plurality of said data electrodes is formed, comprising:a step of applying, immediately after power is turned ON, a pulse having an erasing pulse which causes a maximum potential difference between said sustaining electrode and said scanning electrode being adjacent to each other to reach at least a sustaining voltage, to said scanning electrode.