Patent ID: 6954187

Claim:
A method for driving an address-display separated-type AC (Alternating Current) plasma display panel in which a first insulating substrate and a second insulating substrate are mounted at a specified interval in a manner to oppose to each other, a first specified number of pairs of a scanning electrode and a sustaining electrode being positioned in parallel to each other is arranged on a face of said first insulating substrate, said face being opposite to said second insulating substrate, and a second specified number of data electrodes being positioned in orthogonal to each of said pairs of said scanning electrode and said sustaining electrode is arranged on a face of said second insulating substrate, said face being opposite to said first insulating substrate, wherein pixel data corresponding to a video signal is sequentially written in a scanning period in each of display cells formed at an intersecting point between each of said pairs of said scanning electrode and sustaining electrode and each of said data electrodes and displaying of written pixels is sustained by sustaining discharge in a sustaining period, said method comprising: a step of applying a scanning pulse to each of said scanning electrodes in said scanning period with different timing; and a step of feeding across said scanning electrode and said sustaining electrode making up said pairs, for a first specified period of time from first specified time after termination of a period during which said scanning pulse is applied, a potential difference being two-thirds or more of a surface firing voltage at which surface discharge occurs between said scanning electrode and said sustaining electrode making up said pairs and being the potential difference at which no discharge is started between said scanning electrode and said sustaining electrode making up said pairs, between said scanning electrode and said sustaining electrode making up said pairs.