Patent ID: 7425935

Claim:
A method of driving a plasma display panel which includes front and rear substrates confronting each other, a pair of transparent electrodes on a confronting surface of the front substrate, a metal electrode provided to each of the transparent electrodes, a dielectric layer covering the transparent and metal electrodes, a protecting layer coated on the dielectric layer, an address electrode formed on a confronting surface of the rear substrate, a dielectric layer covering the address electrode, a barrier rib formed on the dielectric layer, a discharge cell partitioned by the barrier rib, and a fluorescent layer coated within the discharge cell, the method comprising: detecting a drive temperature of a panel; mapping data using a first sub-field pattern when the detected drive temperature of the panel is a low temperature or a high temperature; and mapping the data using a second sub-field pattern different from the first sub-field pattern when the detected drive temperature of the panel is a temperature between the low temperature and the high temperature.