Patent ID: 7365767

Claim:
An apparatus for driving a plasma display panel comprising: a sub-field generator adapted to convert input video signal data into sub-field data and to transmit the sub-field data; a pattern detector adapted to determine whether address consumption power of the sub-field data transmitted from the sub-field generator is high and to transmit a scan direction flag signal that allows interlaced scanning to be carried out when the address consumption power of the sub-field data is high; a memory controller adapted to rearrange the sub-field data transmitted from the sub-field generator such that an addressing operation corresponding to the scan direction flag signal is carried out when the scan direction flag signal is transmitted to the memory controller from the pattern detector; and a scan/sustain driving controller adapted to generate a control signal that allows scan pulses to be applied corresponding to the scan direction flag signal when the scan direction flag signal is transmitted from the pattern detector to the scan/sustain driving controller.