Patent ID: 7906914

Claim:
A method for driving a plasma display panel in which a plurality of first and second electrodes are arranged adjacently each other, a plurality of third electrodes are arranged to cross the first and second electrodes, the plasma display panel having a reset period, an address period, and a sustain discharged period, the method comprising: in said reset period, applying to the second electrodes a first waveform voltage, whose applied potential increases with time, and thereafter, applying to the second electrodes a second waveform voltage, whose applied potential decreases with time, while applying a positive polarity potential to said first electrodes, wherein a potential of the second electrodes reached by applying the first waveform voltage is higher than a high level potential of a voltage applied to the second electrodes during said sustain period, and the positive polarity potential is lower than a high level potential of a voltage applied to the first electrodes during said sustain period.