Patent ID: 7151510

Claim:
A method of driving an Alternating Current (AC) Plasma Display Panel (PDP) including a plurality of discharge cells each of which has a scan electrode, a sustain electrode and an address electrode by applying drive signals to said electrodes, in which, in order to display image information on the AC PDP, one frame of the image information is divided into a plurality of sub-frames and each of the sub-frames includes a reset period, an address period and a sustain period, comprising the steps of: applying a drive signal including a plurality of successive short pulses in the reset period; addressing at least a part of said discharge cells by applying data pulses to at least a part of said electrodes to enable selective discharge of said discharge cells according to said image information in the address period; wherein, during the reset period, said plurality of short pulses form a plurality of discharges each duration of which is limited; and wherein a standardized wall charge is formed in each of the discharge cells due to the plurality of discharges so that the selective discharge is easily generated by application of data pulses during the address period.