Patent ID: 7298349

Claim:
A plasma display system comprising: a plasma display panel comprising: a plurality of scan electrodes and a plurality of sustain electrodes arranged in parallel with each other, a plurality of data electrodes arranged in a direction intersecting said scan electrodes, and a plurality of priming electrodes parallel to said scan electrodes, for generating priming discharge between the priming electrodes and the corresponding scan electrodes; wherein the plurality of scan electrodes includes priming-designated scan electrodes and non-priming-designated scan electrodes; and a driver operable to: drive said plasma display panel according to field periods, wherein each field period includes a plurality of sub-fields, and each subfield includes an initializing period, writing period, and sustaining period, in the writing period: apply a scan pulse of a first pulse width to said priming-designated scan electrodes, and perform writing and priming discharge on said priming-designated scan electrodes during the scan pulse of the first pulse width applied to said priming-designated scan electrodes; and apply a scan pulse of a second pulse width, which is smaller than the first pulse width, to said non-priming-designated scan electrodes, and perform writing but no priming discharge on said non-priming-designated scan electrodes during the scan pulse of the second pulse width applied to said non-priming-designated scan electrodes.