Patent ID: 7479952
Filing Date: 2009-01-20
Classification: G09G

Abstract:
1. A method for driving a plasma display panel including a plurality of first electrodes, a plurality of second electrodes, a plurality of third electrodes crossing the first electrodes and the second electrodes, and discharge cells formed by the first electrodes, the second electrodes, and the third electrodes, wherein a frame is divided into a plurality of subfields, and a subfield comprises a reset period, an address period, and a sustain period, wherein a discharge cell is selected by applying a pulse to a first electrode in the address period, the method comprising: in an idle period, applying, to the first electrode, a lowest voltage applied to the first electrode in the reset period or the address period, the lowest voltage being applied and having a constant non-zero value for the entire idle period, wherein the idle period is the entire period extending from an end of a first frame to a start of a second frame immediately subsequent to the first frame.