Patent ID: 6909241
Filing Date: 2005-06-21
Classification: G09G,H01J

Abstract:
1. A method of driving a plasma display panel comprising: a plurality of first electrodes provided on a substrate; a plurality of second electrodes, each of the plurality of second electrodes being provided between the plurality of first electrodes; a plurality of third electrodes intersecting the first and second electrodes; and discharge cells that perform address discharging between the first electrodes and the third electrodes and sustaining discharging between the first electrodes and the second electrodes, and that can perform sustaining discharging between the first electrodes and the second electrodes that are adjacent to both sides of the first electrodes at the same time, wherein in an address period for performing the address discharging, two electrodes, one being an odd-numbered electrode and one being an even-numbered electrode, of the first electrodes are paired with each other and are scanned in a predetermined order, and the address period is divided into a first period and a second period, wherein, in the first period one of one group of odd-numbered electrodes and another group of even-numbered electrodes of the second electrodes is put in a selected state and the other group is put in an anti-selected state, and in the second period the other group of electrodes is put in the selected state and the one group of electrodes is put in the anti-selected state for scanning the pair of first electrodes.