Patent ID: 7212178

Claim:
A method of driving a display panel having a plurality of addressable discharge cells driven by display pulses, including: applying data pulses during a time interval between display pulses, generating priming charges for each of the discharge cells by means of reset discharges so as to reduce an amplitude of the data pulses, and providing, during a TV-field period that includes a plurality of sub-fields, at least one sub-field associated with a row of discharge cells with: a reset/write period for generating the reset discharges via a D-reset pulse applied to display electrodes, an S-reset pulse applied to scan electrodes, and a write pulse applied to the scan electrodes, an address period, and a display period, and providing sub-fields other than the one sub-field, which other sub-fields are associated with the row of discharge cells with: an address period, and a display period; and applying during the address period of a sub-field scan pulses to the scan electrodes one-horizontal-line-at-a-time, as well as data pulses in synchronization with the scan pulses to the data electrodes in order to create address discharges.