Patent ID: 6278243
Filing Date: 2001-08-21
Classification: G09G

Abstract:
A surface discharge plasma display apparatus havingfirst and second substrates separated and opposed to each other and having X-electrode lines, Y-electrode lines, and address electrode lines between the first and second substrates, the X-electrode lines being parallel to the Y-electrode lines, and the address electrode lines being orthogonal to the X-electrode lines and the Y-electrode lines, pixels being defined at intersections of the address electrode lines and the X-electrode and Y-electrode lines, whereina scan drive signal is applied to each of the Y-electrode lines while display data signals are applied to the address electrode lines, thereby forming wall charges in selected pixels, andan alternating current voltage is applied to each of the X-electrode lines and each of the Y-electrode lines after the wall charges are formed in the selected pixels, thereby causing light to be emitted from the selected pixels, andeach Y-electrode line is divided into a left Y-electrode line having a left terminal and a right Y-electrode line having a right terminal, anda left Y-driver generating a drive signal for the left terminals of the left Y-electrode lines, and a right Y-driver generating a drive signal for the right terminals of the right Y-electrode lines, and the left and right Y-electrode drivers operate in response to the same control signal.