Patent ID: 7286103

Claim:
A method for driving a display panel, wherein pixels of the display panel are arranged into a plurality of groups and addressed and sustain-discharged on a group-by-group basis, said method comprising steps of: in a write/sustain mixed period, sequentially performing an address operation and a sustain operation on the pixels of each of the groups, wherein the pixels of each of the groups are addressed and then the pixels of the addressed group are sustain-discharged, the sustain operation is followed by the address operation for the pixels of the next group, and while the sustain operation is performed on the pixels of one group, other groups that have already addressed are also subject to the sustain operation; in a concurrent sustain period, performing a predetermined length of sustain operation concurrently on the pixels of all the groups; and in a brightness compensation period, selectively performing an additional sustain operation on the pixels of each of the groups so that each of the groups satisfies a predetermined gradation.