Patent ID: 7468712

Claim:
A method for driving a plasma display panel (PDP) comprising a plurality of first electrodes and second electrodes in parallel on a first substrate, and a plurality of third electrodes crossing the first and second electrodes and being on a second substrate, said first, second, and third electrodes defining a plurality of discharge cells, the PDP being driven during a plurality of subfields of a frame, at least one of the plurality of subfields comprising a first reset period, a second reset period immediately following the first reset period, an address period and a sustain period, the method comprising: setting the plurality of discharge cells in the first reset period, wherein the first reset period comprises a rising voltage period and a falling voltage period, and a reset waveform applied to the first electrodes gradually rises during the rising voltage period and gradually falls during the falling voltage period; further setting the plurality of discharge cells in the second reset period; selecting at least one discharge cell from among the plurality of discharge cells in the address period; and discharging said at least one discharge cell in the sustain period.