Patent ID: 6882328

Claim:
A method for driving a matrix-type AC-type plasma display panel which is constructed by combining a first substrate having a plurality of scanning electrodes and a plurality of sustaining electrodes each extending in parallel to each other in a row direction wherein two of said scanning electrodes being adjacent to each other and two of said sustaining electrodes being adjacent to each other are alternately arranged and wherein a display line is formed between each of said scanning electrodes and each of said sustaining electrodes with a second substrate being placed so as to face a surface of said first substrate on which said scanning electrodes and said sustaining electrodes are formed and having a plurality of data electrodes extending in a column direction being orthogonal to said row direction in which said scanning electrodes and said sustaining electrodes extend and first partition walls used to partition said display line in said column direction with said data electrodes being sandwiched and by forming a plurality of display cells, each of which is placed on each point of intersection of each of said scanning electrodes, each of said sustaining electrodes, and each of said data electrodes, said method comprising: a step of setting potentials such that, during a selecting period in which presence or absence of display about each of said display cells arranged on arbitrary one display line is controlled, a potential of said sustaining electrode making up said arbitrary one display line is different from a potential of another sustaining electrode making up another display line being adjacent to said arbitrary one display line.