Patent ID: 6911783

Claim:
A driving method for a plasma display panel that includes pairs of display electrodes made up of a first row electrode and a second row electrode disposed in stripes and column electrodes, the display electrodes being disposed so as to intersect the column electrodes with a discharge space interposed therebetween so that a cell is formed at each of intersections, and in at least one of the pairs of display electrodes, the first row electrode and the second row electrode are disposed in a reversed order compared to the other pairs of display electrodes, wherein a potential difference is made at a time of generating an address discharge, that is when a voltage is applied to a combination of the first row electrode and the column electrode, the potential difference being a difference between (a) a voltage applied to a particular second row electrode of a cell having the address discharge and (b) a voltage applied to another second row electrode that is positioned adjacent to the particular second row electrode and is of a cell positioned adjacent to the cell having the address discharge.