Patent ID: 7528800

Claim:
An apparatus for driving a plasma display panel including scan electrodes, sustain electrodes, and panel capacitors formed between the scan electrodes and the sustain electrodes, comprising: a scan integrated circuit having a first transistor and a second transistor, the scan integrated circuit to supply a scan voltage to the scan electrodes, wherein a node between the first transistor and the second transistor is coupled to the scan electrodes; a sustain discharge voltage generator including a third transistor and a fourth transistor coupled in series between a first voltage and a second voltage, the sustain discharge voltage generator to apply the first voltage and the second voltage to the scan electrodes, wherein a node between the third transistor and the fourth transistor is coupled to the scan electrodes; and a rising reset waveform generator including a first capacitor, a terminal of which is coupled to the node between the third transistor and the fourth transistor, and a fifth transistor having a first terminal coupled to another terminal of the first capacitor and a second terminal directly coupled to the first transistor, the second terminal of the fifth transistor being not directly coupled to the second transistor, the rising reset waveform generator to apply a rising reset waveform rising from a third voltage to a fourth voltage to the scan electrode via a current path including the capacitor, the fifth transistor, and the first transistor, wherein the first transistor and the fifth transistor are turned on to form the current path.