Method for driving a plasma display panel

A method for driving a plasma display panel having discharge cells each corresponding to one pixel formed at each of intersecting points between a plurality of row electrodes corresponding to display lines and a plurality of column electrodes intersecting said row electrodes, in response to a video signal, at each of successively appearing sub-fields forming each of the fields of said video signal, which comprises:

• in each of said sub-fields, executing
• a pixel data writing step for setting said discharge cell to one of a light emitting state and a non-light emitting state in accordance with pixel data corresponding to the video signal;
• and
• a light emission sustaining step for causing only said discharge cell in said light emitting state to emit light by only a number of times assigned in relation to the weighting of each of said sub-fields, wherein
• in the pixel data writing step in a sub-field of a small weighting, one of said light emitting state and said non-light emitting state is selected every a plurality of said display lines which are simultaneously scanned, in the pixel data writing step in other sub-fields, one of said light emitting state and said non-light emitting state is selected at a display line.