Patent ID: 6353423
Filing Date: 2002-03-05
Classification: G09G

Abstract:
A driving method for gray-scale display using a plurality of subfields in each of which an address step, a sustaining discharge steps and a reset step are respectively performed, in a unit frame of a plasma display panel having a front substrate and a rear substrate, opposingly spaced apart from each other, and in which common electrode lines, scan electrode lines, and address electrode lines are arranged between the front substrate and the rear substrate, the common electrode lines being parallel to the scan electrode lines, and the address electrode lines being orthogonal to the scan electrode lines so that pixels are defined at respective crossing points of the scan electrode lines and the address electrode lines, the driving method comprising:dividing the unit frame to be displayed into unit drive periods corresponding to the number of gray scale steps; trisecting each unit drive period into a unit address period, a unit sustaining discharge period, and a unit reset period, the respective unit address periods being equal to one another, the respective unit sustaining discharge periods being equal to one another, and the respective unit reset periods being equal to one another; dividing each unit address period into the same number of time intervals as there are subfields and allocating the time intervals to respective subfields; sequentially starting the respective subfields with a time interval corresponding to the unit drive period and overlapping with one another, and applying an address voltage between the scan electrode line and the address electrode line corresponding to the first unit drive period of the subfields during the time interval allocated to each unit address period; applying a sustaining discharge voltage between the common electrode lines and all the scan electrode lines during all the unit sustaining discharge periods; and applying a reset voltage between the common electrode lines and the scan electrode lines corresponding to the last unit drive period of the subfields during each unit reset period.