Patent ID: 6344715
Filing Date: 2002-02-05
Classification: G09G

Abstract:
A plasma display device provided with a plasma display panel comprising, a plurality of row electrode pairs corresponding to display lines, a dielectric layer for covering with said plurality of row electrodes pairs, and a plurality of column electrodes intersecting said plurality of row electrode pairs through discharge space to define a discharge cell corresponding to a pixel at intersection, said discharge space being filled with a discharge gas,said plasma display device having general reset means, which causes a reset discharge for forming a wall charge on said dielectric layer of all of said discharge cells, pixel data writing means, which causes a selective erasure discharge that selectively erases, in accordance with pixel data corresponding to an input video signal, said wall charge formed in said discharge cells, and emission sustaining means, which applies sustaining pulses, having a voltage value of at least 200 volts, alternately to each row electrode of said pair of row electrodes to cause only the discharge cells, in which said wall charge remains, to undergo sustained discharge repeatedly.