Patent ID: 7145524

Claim:
A method for driving a three-electrode surface discharge AC type plasma display panel that has a screen in which first display electrodes, second display electrodes and address electrodes are arranged, the method comprising: repeating initialization for equalizing wall voltages in all cells that constitute the screen, addressing for setting the wall voltage of each cell to a value corresponding to relevant display data in accordance with display data, and sustaining for generating display discharge a predetermined number of times only in cells to be lighted; applying a blunt wave at least two times as the initialization operation so that a potential of at least one electrode of all the cells increases or decreases simply; generating discharge only in a previous non-lighted cell that was not lighted in the last sustaining process that was performed before the initialization so that the wall voltage thereof approaches a wall voltage of a previous lighted cell that was lighted in the last sustaining process, in the first blunt wave application among the at least two blunt wave applications; and generating discharge in the previous lighted cell and the previous non-lighted cell so that the wall voltage of these cells change to set values, in the second blunt wave application.