Patent ID: 8379007

Claim:
A method for driving a plasma display panel that having a plurality of discharge cells including a display electrode pair composed of a scan electrode and a sustain electrode, the method comprising: providing a plurality of subfields in one field period, each of the subfields including an initializing period, an address period and a sustain period; and applying a plurality of sustain pulses and an inclined up waveform to only one of the scan electrode and the sustain electrode in the sustain period, the inclined up waveform being applied at an end of the sustain period, the plurality of sustain pulses including: a plurality of reference sustain pulses having a reference rise time and a reference fall time, the plurality of reference sustain pulses being applied in the sustain period, and a plurality of other sustain pulses having an other rise time that is shorter than the reference rise time and an other fall time that is longer than the reference fall time, the plurality of other sustain pulses being applied in the sustain period, wherein a predetermined number of the other sustain pulses determined by comparing a total number of sustain pulses in the sustain period to a threshold number of sustain pulses are continuously applied to the one electrode after the plurality of reference sustain pulses are applied to the one electrode.