Patent ID: 6995735

Claim:
A method for driving an alternating current-type plasma display panel comprising the steps of: mounting X electrodes and Y electrodes on one of two insulating substrates placed opposite to each other so as to be disposed alternately and parallel to each other; mounting data electrodes on the other of the two insulating substrates so as to be perpendicular to both the X electrodes and the Y electrodes; forming pixels at intersection of the X electrodes and Y electrodes and the data electrodes in a matrix form; inducing sequentially, during a scanning period, writing discharge for producing wall charges based on gradation sequence to be displayed; inducing sustaining discharge by applying, during a sustaining period, a sustaining pulse for inducing light emitting for displaying alternately to each of the X electrodes and each of the Y electrodes based on the wall charges; and applying during the scanning period a voltage of same polarity and same level to the X electrode and Y electrode of the pixels at timing when a data pulse corresponding to gradation sequence to be displayed of the pixels in applied to the data electrodes.