Plasma display device and method for driving plasma display panel

A plasma display apparatus comprising:

• a plasma display panel having a plurality of discharge cells where a plurality of subfields having a luminance weight is disposed in one field and as many sustain pulses as a number corresponding to the luminance weight are applied in a sustain period of each of the subfields to emit light;
• an image signal processing circuit for converting an input image signal into image data indicating light emission or no light emission in each subfield in the discharge cells;
• a sustain pulse generation circuit that generates as many sustain pulses as the number corresponding to the luminance weight in the sustain period, and applies the sustain pulses to the discharge cells;
• an all-cell light-emitting rate detecting circuit for detecting, as an all-cell light-emitting rate, which is a ratio of the number of discharge cells to be lit to a total number of discharge cells on an image display surface of the plasma display panel in each subfield;
• a partial light-emitting rate detecting circuit that divides the image display surface of the plasma display panel into a plurality of regions and detects, as a partial light-emitting rate, which is a ratio of the number of discharge cells to be lit to the number of discharge cells in each of the regions in each subfield;
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• a timing generation circuit that has a number-of-sustain-pulses correcting section for controlling the number of sustain pulses generated by the sustain pulse generation circuit and generates a timing signal for controlling the sustain pulse generation circuit,
• wherein the number-of-sustain-pulses correcting section has a look-up table on which a plurality of correction coefficients is previously stored in association with the all-cell light-emitting rate and the partial light-emitting rates,
• wherein the number-of-sustain-pulses correcting section corrects the number of generated sustain pulses set for each subfield based on the input image signal and the luminance weight by using a first correction coefficient and a common correction coefficient, the first correction coefficient being read from the look-up table in response to the all-cell light-emitting rate and the partial light-emitting rates and being set for each subfield, the common correction coefficient being set based on the first correction coefficient, and
• wherein the number-of-sustain-pulses correcting section adds a preset offset value to the all-cell light-emitting rate in each subfield, multiplies the addition result by the number of sustain pulses in each subfield, calculates a sum total of the multiplication results in one field period to calculate an estimated value of a power consumption in one field period, and sets the common correction coefficient so that the estimated values of the power consumption in one field period before correction and after the correction can be equivalent to each other, the correction using the first correction coefficient and the common correction coefficient.