Method for driving plasma display panel

A method for driving an AC type plasma display panel comprising the steps of:

• arranging first electrodes and second electrodes adjacent to one another for each display line;
• arranging third electrodes in such a manner as to cross said first and second electrodes;
• and
• repeating light emission display by utilizing a selective address discharge by either one of said first and second electrodes and by said third electrode, and a sustain discharge executed repeatedly, wherein:
• each of a plurality of frames, constituting a display in said plasma display panel, comprises a plurality of subframes respectively having predetermined luminances and each of said subframes having a period in which said selective address discharge is executed and a period in which said sustain discharge is executed after said selective address discharge, and
• a priming discharge is executed only once for all of said cells, of at least one of the display lines for at least two of said frames.

A method for driving an AC type plasma display panel comprising the steps of:

• arranging first electrodes and second electrodes adjacent to one another for each display line on a first substrate;
• arranging third electrodes on a second substrate opposing said first substrate in such a manner as to cross said first and second electrodes;
• and
• repeating light emission display by utilizing a selective address discharge by either one of said first and second electrodes and by one of said third electrodes, and a sustain discharge executed repeatedly, wherein:
• each of a plurality of frames, constituting a display in said plasma display panel, comprises a plurality of subframes respectively having predetermined luminances and each of said subframes having a period in which said selective address discharge is executed and a period in which said sustain discharge is executed after said selective address discharge, and
• a priming discharge is executed at least once for all of said cells, of at least one of the display lines for each frame, and a self-erase discharge is executed for only those of said cells which have executed said sustain discharge.

A method for driving an AC type plasma display panel comprising the steps of:

• arranging first electrodes and second electrodes adjacent to one another for each display line on a first substrate;
• arranging third electrodes on a second substrate opposing said first substrate in such a manner as to cross said first and second electrodes;
• and
• repeating light emission display by utilizing a selective address discharge by either one of said first and second electrodes and by one of said third electrodes and a sustain discharge executed repeatedly, wherein:
• each of a plurality of frames constituting a display in said plasma display panels comprises a plurality of subframes respectively having predetermined luminances and each of said subframes having a period in which a priming discharge is executed, a period in which said selective address discharge is executed after said priming discharge and a period in which said sustain discharge is executed after said selective address discharge, and
• when said priming discharge is executed by applying a waveform having a gentle slope to said first or second electrodes, for all of said cells of a selected display line and for each of said subframes or for each of said frames, wall charges having a polarity opposite to a polarity of said waveform having a gentle slope are allowed to remain until immediately before said priming discharge.