Patent ID: 8094092

Claim:
A plasma display apparatus comprising a plasma display panel in which plural first electrodes and plural second electrodes are arranged adjacently and plural third electrodes cross the plural first and second electrodes and in which one field comprises plural subfields, at least one subfield having a reset period, and a display is produced by controlling lighting of the subfields, comprising: a first electrode drive circuit driving the first electrodes; a second electrode drive circuit driving the second electrodes; and a third electrode drive circuit driving the third electrodes, wherein: the second electrode drive circuit comprises: a waveform generating circuit generating a slope-shaped waveform in which the value of an applied voltage has a predetermined slope and increases with time during the reset period, and a voltage control circuit controlling the start timing and termination timing of the slope-shaped waveform and variably controlling the value of the voltage reached by the sloped-shaped waveform.