Patent ID: 7511707

Claim:
A method for driving a plasma display panel, the plasma display panel including scan electrodes, sustain electrodes, and address electrodes, arranged in a matrix form, the scan electrodes and the sustain electrodes forming parallel pairs and the address electrodes extending perpendicular to the scan electrodes and the sustain electrodes, the method driving the plasma display panel during frames, each frame having subfields, each subfield having a reset period followed by an address period followed by a sustain period, the reset period including a rising period followed by a falling period, the method comprising: biasing the sustain electrodes at a first voltage during all periods of each subfield; applying a negative second voltage to non-selected electrodes of the scan electrodes and a third voltage more negative than the second voltage to selected electrodes of the scan electrodes during the address period; increasing the voltage of the scan electrodes from the negative second voltage to a positive fourth voltage at an end of the address period and a beginning of the sustain period; and alternately applying a negative fifth voltage and the positive fourth voltage to the scan electrodes during the sustain period, wherein during at least a portion of the rising period of the reset period a voltage of the address electrodes is higher than a voltage of the sustain electrodes.