Patent ID: 7623092

Claim:
A plasma display device comprising a plurality of sub-frames in one frame, each sub-frame having a reset period, an address period and a sustain discharge period, wherein, in said address period, a discharge for display selection occurs at least between first and second electrodes, at the end of said reset period, reset is performed by applying a gradient voltage pulse between said first and second electrodes, and the final gradient voltage pulse in said reset period has an identical polarity to that of a voltage applied between said first and second electrodes when the discharge occurs in said address period, wherein said plurality of sub-frames is classified into first-type and second-type sub-frames, in the reset period of said first-type sub-frames, a gradient voltage pulse having the reverse polarity to that of said final gradient voltage pulse is applied between said first and second electrodes, prior to said final gradient voltage pulse, and in the reset period of said second-type sub-frames, the gradient voltage pulse having the reverse polarity to that of said final gradient voltage pulse is not applied between said first and second electrodes, and wherein a plurality of said first-type sub-frames is existent in one frame, and an attained voltage of said gradient voltage pulse of reverse polarity in at least one first-type sub-frame among said plurality of first-type sub-frames is different from that of said gradient voltage pulse of reverse polarity in other first-type sub-frame.