Patent ID: 7330165

Claim:
A method for driving a plasma display panel including a plurality of scan electrodes and a plurality of sustain electrodes disposed parallel to each other on a front substrate, a plurality of data electrodes disposed in a direction intersecting a direction of the scan electrodes on a rear substrate, and a plurality of priming electrodes disposed in a direction parallel to the direction of the scan electrodes on the rear substrate, each of the plurality of scan electrodes being aligned to protrude toward a corresponding one of the plurality of priming electrodes to form a priming space therebetween, the priming electrodes for generating a priming discharge between the priming electrodes and the corresponding scan electrodes, whereby one field period is made of a plurality of sub-fields, each of the sub-fields including an initializing period, a writing period and a sustaining period, the method comprising: prior to applying a scanning voltage to the scan electrodes corresponding to the respective priming electrodes, applying, to the respective priming electrodes, a voltage synchronized to a cycle of the sub-field for causing a priming discharge between the priming electrodes and the corresponding scan electrodes, in the writing period of each of the sub-fields.