Method of driving plasma display panel and plasma display panel in which a difference between starting timings of the sustaining time periods in adjacent blocks is set substantially equal to the length of the writing time period in the adjacent blocks

A plasma display device comprising:

• a plasma display panel including:
• a plurality of scan electrodes and a plurality of sustain electrodes forming a plurality of display electrode pairs, the display electrode pairs extending in a row direction and forming a display line;
• a plurality of data electrodes disposed in the direction crossing the display electrode pairs;
• and
• discharge cells at intersections of the data electrodes and the display electrode pairs, a plurality of scan electrode driving units individually corresponding to a plurality of blocks, the plurality of blocks being formed by dividing the display electrode pair;
• and
• a plurality of sustain electrode driving units individually corresponding to a plurality of blocks,
• wherein one field time period comprises:
• at least one subfield that has an initializing time period, a writing time period, and a sustaining time period, and
• a plurality of subfields that have a writing time period and a sustaining time period, and do not have an initializing time period,
• wherein the plasma display device is driven by a driving method comprising:
• dividing each display electrode pair into a plurality of blocks;
• setting, in at least one subfield that has an initializing time period, a writing time period, and a sustaining time period, a difference between starting timings of subfields in adjacent blocks, so as to correspond to the initializing time period and the writing time period;
• and
• setting, in the plurality of subfields that have a writing time period and a sustaining time period, a difference between starting timings ofsubfields in adjacent blocks, so as to correspond to the writing time period.