Patent ID: 7075504
Filing Date: 2006-07-11
Classification: G09G,H01J

Abstract:
1. A display device for displaying an image corresponding to an input video signal in accordance with pixel data of each pixel based on said input video signal, comprising: a display panel having a front substrate and a back substrate opposing each other across a discharge space, a plurality of row electrode pairs arranged on an inner surface of said front substrate, a plurality of column electrodes arranged on an inner surface of said back substrate to intersect with said row electrode pairs, and an unit light emission region formed at each of intersections of said row electrode pairs and said column electrodes and including a first discharge cell and a second discharge cell having a light absorbing layer; addressing means for sequentially applying a scanning pulse to one row electrode of each said row electrode pair while sequentially applying each said column electrode with pixel data pulses corresponding to said pixel data one display line by one display line at the same timing as said scanning pulse to selectively produce an address discharge in said second discharge cell to set said first discharge cell to one of a lit cell state and an unlit cell state; and sustaining means for repeatedly applying a sustain pulse to each said row electrode pair to produce a sustain discharge only in said first discharge cell set in said lit cell state.