Patent ID: 7659870

Claim:
A method of driving a plasma display panel having sustaining electrode pairs and data electrodes and being divided into a reset interval, an address interval and a sustaining interval, the plasma display panel including a first substrate and a second substrate, and the sustaining electrode pairs being provided on the first substrate and the data electrodes being provided on the second substrate, and trigger electrode pairs being provided on the first substrate, said method comprising: applying, during the sustaining interval, sustaining signals to each of the sustaining electrode pair; applying a signal to the data electrode at least during a portion of the sustaining interval in which one of the sustaining signals is applied, wherein a width of the signal applied to the data electrode is greater than a width of one of the sustaining signals, wherein the signal applied to the data electrode has a voltage level greater than ⅓ a voltage level of one of the sustaining signals; and alternately applying a trigger pulse to the electrodes of each trigger electrode pair during the portion of the sustaining interval, the trigger pulse having a lower voltage than the one of the sustaining signals.