Patent ID: 7427969
Filing Date: 2008-09-23
Classification: G09G

Abstract:
1. A plasma display apparatus, comprising first and second groups of electrodes arranged on a first substrate in parallel to each other and a third group of electrodes arranged on a second substrate facing the first substrate so as to intersect the first and second groups of electrodes, wherein one frame is made up of a plurality of subfields and the plurality of subfields includes a first subfield group having an address period during which an address discharge is caused to occur to select cells to be lit and a sustain period during which a sustain discharge is caused to occur in the cells selected during the address period; and a second subfield group having an address period but not a sustain period, wherein the address period in the first subfield group includes a first subfield in which, after an address discharge is caused to occur between the second group of electrodes and the third group of electrodes, an address discharge is caused to occur between the first group of electrodes and the second group of electrodes, and wherein the address period in the second subfield group includes a second subfield in which the address discharge is caused to occur between the second group of electrodes and the third group of electrodes, without a transition of this address discharge to that between the first group of electrodes and the second group of electrodes and a third subfield in which, after the address discharge is caused to occur between the second group of electrodes and the third group of electrodes, the address discharge is caused to occur between the first group of electrodes and the second group of electrodes.