Patent ID: 7274344

Claim:
Method for driving a plasma display for displaying images, comprising: sustain electrode arrays and at least one trigger electrode array, discharge regions which are each crossed by a pair of sustain electrodes (Y s , Y AS ) and at least one trigger electrode (X A ), the said method comprising a succession of image frames or subframes which each comprise a discharge region sustain phase which itself comprises the application of approximately constant sustain voltage pulses V S between the electrodes of each pair serving these regions, and the application of a trigger voltage pulse V M between the trigger electrode (X A ) and one and/or the other of the electrodes of each pair serving these regions, the sustain voltage V S being greater than or equal to the value V S-min from and beyond which sustain discharges can be obtained in the display without trigger pulses during the sustain phases and the voltage V M being designed to trigger a plasma discharge between the electrodes of the said pair, characterized in that the duration τ M of each trigger pulse is less than 1 μs and in that if the time interval between the beginning of a trigger pulse and the moment when the discharge current in the trigger electrode (X A ) becomes zero is denoted τ C , then: 50 ns≦τ C ≦150 ns.