Plasma display driving method and apparatus
AssigneeFujitsu Hitachi Plasma Display Limited
InventorsAkihiro Takagi, Takashi Sasaki, Akira Otsuka
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Abstract
A plasma display driving method and apparatus that can reduce the occurrences of dropout, on a displayed image, caused by misaddress when the environment temperature becomes low. In the inventive plasma display, the environment temperature is determined, and during a charge adjustment interval, the ultimate voltage, which the drive waveform of a scan electrode voltage reaches at the end after continuously varying in the negative direction, is changed in accordance with the determined environment temperature in such a manner that if the environment temperature becomes lower, the ultimate voltage is directed in the positive direction.
Claims5
A driving method of a plasma display having multiple parallel first and second electrodes mutually and adjacently placed with respect to each other, multiple third electrodes placed to intersect with the first and second electrodes, a discharge cell prescribed in a cross region of each of the electrodes, and including a reset interval, an address interval and a sustained discharge interval the method comprising the steps of:
- in the reset interval, applying a positive pulse to the second electrode, and then applying slope waveform which decreases an applied voltage value over time to the second electrode;
- detecting environment temperature of the plasma display;
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- raising an ultimate raising a reached potential of the slope waveform by decreasing an inclination thereof in accordance with a voltage change value per unit time when the environment temperature falls, and lowering the reached potential of the slope waveform by increasing the inclination thereof when the environment temperature rises.
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