Patent ID: 6072449
Filing Date: 2000-06-06
Classification: G09G

Abstract:
A method of driving a surface-discharge type plasma display panel which comprises a plurality of displaying lines each including a first maintaining electrode and a second maintaining electrode to form a discharge gap therebetween, a dielectric layer coverring the first and second maintaining electrodes, a plurality of address electrodes arranged in a direction orthogonal to the first and second maintaining electrodes to form a plurality of picture elements, said method comprising:providing an address period for selecting picture elements to be lighted and picture elements not to be lighted in accordance with displaying data;providing a discharge maintaining period for alternatively applying discharge maintaining pulses to first and second maintaining electrodes so as to maintain lighted picture elements and not-lighted picture elements;applying two discharge maintaining pulses, having different phases to every two second maintaining electrodes between which there is a first maintaining electrode serving as a common electrode for the two second maintaining electrodes.