Patent ID: 6798393
Filing Date: 2004-09-28
Classification: G09G

Abstract:
A plasma display device performing gradation driving to a plasma display panel based on a video signal, said plasma display panel having discharge cells formed at intersections of a plurality of row electrodes corresponding to display lines and a plurality of column electrodes arranged intersecting said row electrodes, comprising:a driving part, said driving part performing, pixel data writing scanning for scanning each said discharge cell on each display line according to pixel data corresponding to said video signal and causing selective discharge thereby setting each said discharge cell to one of a light emitting state and a non-light emitting state in each of a plurality of subfields forming a display period for one field in said video signal, and light emission sustaining driving for causing sustaining discharge thereby allowing only said discharge cell in said light emitting state to emit light as many times as the number of light emission allocated corresponding to the weight of each said subfield; and a non-selected line detection part for detecting a non-selected line to be a display line on which all said discharge cells are not subjected to said selective discharge based on said pixel data, wherein said driving part performing said pixel data writing scanning only to each said display line excluding said non-selected line; a spare time operation part for obtaining spare time produced in the display period for one field based on the total number of said non-selected lines detected by said non-selected line detection part, and wherein said driving part changing the number of light emission allocated to each said subfield within the range of said spare time.