Method of driving plasma display panel
AssigneePioneer Corporation
InventorTadashi Nakamura
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Abstract
A method of driving a plasma display panel including a plurality of mutually parallel first electrodes, and a plurality of second electrodes separated from and perpendicular to the first electrodes, the intersection points of neighboring pairs of the first electrode pairs and the second electrode pairs forming an unit display cell, includes the step of reversing the potentials between the electrodes at the time of write discharge carried out between the odd-numbered the first electrodes and even-numbered the first electrodes, and the second electrodes, to each other.
Claims25
A method of driving a plasma display panel, the panel comprising:
- a plurality of mutually parallel display electrodes including first display electrodes and second display electrodes, the second display electrodes being parallel to and alternating with the first display electrodes,
- and a plurality of mutually parallel data electrodes perpendicular to the display electrodes,
- wherein intersection points of the display electrodes and the data electrodes define a plurality of display cells,
- the method comprising the steps of;
- (a) sequentially applying a write discharge pulse of a first potential difference between the first display electrodes and the data electrodes, to the first display electrodes;
- and
- (b) sequentially applying a write discharge pulse of a second potential difference, having a polarity opposite that of the first potential difference, between the second display electrodes and the data electrodes, to the second display electrodes.
A apparatus that drives a plasma display panel, comprising:
- first and second display electrodes which are alternately disposed with respect to each other;
- data electrodes formed perpendicular to the first and second display electrodes;
- and
- a control circuit that applies a first write discharge pulse having a first potential difference to the first display electrodes, wherein the first potential difference is a potential difference between the first display electrodes and the data electrodes,
- wherein the control circuit applies a second write discharge pulse having a second potential difference to the second display electrodes, wherein the second potential difference is a potential difference between the second display electrodes and the data electrodes and has a polarity that is opposite to a polarity of the first potential difference.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.