Patent ID: 7049755

Claim:
In a plasma display panel (PDP), a method comprising driving said PDP for displaying a picture on said PDP by dividing a field into a plurality of subfields, said PDP comprising a first plurality of electrodes arranged in a first direction, a second plurality of electrodes paired with said first plurality of respective electrodes and arranged in said first direction, and a third plurality of electrodes arranged in a second direction so as to cross over said first direction, said PDP further comprising a plurality of cells at crossing portions between said first and second pluralities of electrodes and said third plurality of electrodes, said method further comprising: resetting for adjusting charges in the cells in the subfields, the resetting for adjusting charges comprising applying voltage waveforms to said electrodes so that the potential difference applied between said second plurality of electrodes and at least one of said first plurality of electrodes and said third plurality of electrodes for the resetting for adjusting charges in a predetermined one of the subfields is larger than the potential difference applied therebetween for the resetting for adjusting charges in a previous subfield.