Patent ID: 7679582

Claim:
A method for driving a plasma display panel, comprising: alternately applying sustain pulses to a scanning electrode and a sustain electrode during a sustain period in a selective writing subfield, the selective writing subfield immediately followed by a selective erasing subfield, the selective writing subfield having a reset period and the selective erasing subfield omitting a reset period; applying a first voltage to an address electrode in the selective writing subfield, the first voltage applied to the address electrode except a time when at least a last pair of sustain pulses is alternately applied to the scanning and sustain electrodes during the sustain period; and applying a second voltage to the address electrode during the time when the last pair of sustain pulses is alternately applied to the scanning and sustain electrodes during the selective writing subfield, wherein the first voltage is a DC voltage of positive polarity and the second voltage is lower than said DC voltage, wherein: an interim period of time in which the second voltage is applied to the address electrode, during the time when the last pair of sustain pulses is alternatively applied to the scanning and sustain electrodes during the selective writing subfield, allows for a distribution of wall charges to be generated relative to one or more of the scanning electrode, sustain electrode, or address electrode sufficient to serve as a reset period for the selective erasing subfield, and an address period of the selective erasing subfield immediately follows said interim period of time in the selective writing subfield.