Patent ID: 6903711

Claim:
A driving method for a plasma display panel, having an address electrode, a first display electrode formed on said address electrode, a second display electrode formed on a surface opposing to said the first display electrode, and a partition wall formed between said first display electrode and said second display electrode and including a metal electrode therein, comprising: conducting an addressing operation for each sub-field; and conducting a sustaining operation for display upon basis of a result of said addressing; wherein, in conducting said sustaining operation, onto said second display electrode is applied pulse voltage differing in polarity and nearly in synchronism with sustain pulse voltage following after second one to be applied onto said first display electrode; thereby forming space charges generated after discharge between said first display electrode and said metal electrode in form of wall charges on said second display electrode; and wherein in conducting said sustaining operation, onto said address electrode is applied short pulse voltage, being different in polarity, at a time earlier than rise-up of the first sustain pulse voltage to be applied onto said first display electrode.