Patent ID: 7372433

Claim:
A method for driving a plasma display panel (PDP) having a first electrode, a second electrode, and a third electrode crossing the first electrode and the second electrode, wherein a discharge cell is formed by the first electrode, the second electrode, and the third electrode, and wherein a field is divided into a plurality of subfields, and the method for driving at least one of the subfields comprises: applying a first voltage and a second voltage to the first electrode and the third electrode, respectively, of a discharge cell to be selected, and generating a first light; applying a voltage gradually rising from a third voltage to a fourth voltage with a first slope to the first electrode, and generating a second light to the selected discharge cell; and applying a voltage gradually rising from a fifth voltage with a second slope to the first electrode, and generating a third light to only the selected discharge cell, wherein the first slope is steeper than the second slope.