Lg Electronics Inc.

Eun Cheol Lee

Sung Yong Ahn

Jae Sung Kim

Seok Dong Kang

Chung Huan Jeon

Young Joon Ahn

Young Kyo Shin

Jae Hong Lee

Seong Ho Kang

Jae Hwa Ryu

Chung Hoo Park

Eung Kwan Lee

Young Chan Park

Sung Hyun Lee

Ju Youn Ryu

A method of driving a plasma display panel that is adaptive for improving brightness and efficiency. In the method, a sustaining pulse for sustaining a discharge of a cell selected in a sustaining interval is alternately applied to each of a sustaining electrode pair. A pulse signal synchronized with the sustaining pulse is applied to a data electrode to cause a discharge for inducing a long-path discharge between the sustaining electrode pair between any one of the sustaining electrode pair and the data electrode.

Method of driving plasma display panel

A plasma display panel having higher light-emitting luminance and efficiency of a discharge cell includes: plurality of first barriers successively formed on a substrate at predetermined intervals; a plurality of first sustain electrodes formed at a width more than 40% of a pixel pitch, which is an overall distance of four of the barriers, to be orthogonal to the first barriers; a plurality of second sustain electrodes spaced apart from the first sustain electrodes at a distance less than 20% of the pixel pitch and mated with the first sustain electrodes one by one; a dielectric layer formed at a thickness of 25 &#x3bc;m or more to cover the first and second sustain electrodes; and a plurality of pads formed on some of the dielectric layer corresponding to the first sustain electrodes and the second sustain electrodes in each discharge cell.

Plasma display panel

It is disclosed that there are a method and an apparatus of driving a plasma display panel that are adaptive for reducing an initialization period. A driving apparatus and a method of a plasma display panel according to the present invention include a driving circuit applying to the plasma display panel a ramp-up waveform rising from a first bias voltage and a ramp-down waveform falling down from a second bias voltage.

Methods and apparatus for driving plasma display panel

A plasma display panel and a driving method thereof that is capable of improving a discharge efficiency as well as preventing a crosstalk. In the panel, an address electrode is included in each discharge cell making a unit pixel of the plasma display panel. A plurality of second sustain electrodes are positioned at each periphery of the discharge cell in a direction crossing the address electrode to receive a second sustaining pulse. At least one of first sustain electrode is positioned at the center of the discharge cell in a direction crossing the address electrode to receive a first sustaining pulse applied alternately with respect to the second sustaining pulse.

Plasma display and driving method thereof

Method and apparatus for driving plasma display panel

A plasma display panel and a driving method thereof that are capable of improving the discharge efficiency and the brightness. In the panel, sustaining electrodes are formed at the boundary portions between the discharge cells. Trigger electrodes are formed at the inner sides of the discharge cells. Lattice-shaped barrier ribs are formed in such a manner to surround the discharge cells. The method of driving the panel includes a reset period, an address period and a sustaining period. In the method, a reset pulse is applied to the sustaining electrodes during the reset period. A scanning pulse is applied to the trigger electrodes during the address period. A first sustaining pulse is applied to the trigger electrodes during the sustaining period. A second sustaining pulse is applied to the sustaining electrodes in such a manner to be alternate with the first sustaining pulse. Accordingly, the PDP causes a sustaining discharge using three electrodes within the discharge cell to increase a discharge frequency per sustaining pulse into two time in comparison to the prior art and to make a long-distance discharge and an enlargement of light-emission area, thereby realizing a high efficiency and a high brightness.

Plasma display panel and driving method thereof

A plasma display panel having higher light-emitting luminance and efficiency of a discharge cell includes: a plurality of first barriers successively formed on a substrate at predetermined intervals; a plurality of first sustain electrodes formed at a width more than 40% of a pixel pitch, which is an overall distance of four of the barriers, to be orthogonal to the first barriers; a plurality of second sustain electrodes spaced apart from the first sustain electrodes at a distance less than 20% of the pixel pitch and mated with the first sustain electrodes one by one; a dielectric layer formed at a thickness of 25 &#x3bc;m or more to cover the first and second sustain electrodes; and a plurality of pads formed on some of the dielectric layer corresponding to the first sustain electrodes and the second sustain electrodes in each discharge cell.

A plasma display panel driving method that is adaptive for improving contrast. In the method, at least one of the first and second electrodes keeps a floating state in an initialization period of at least one sub-field of a plurality of sub-fields.

A plasma display panel having higher light-emitting luminance and efficiency of a discharge cell includes: a plurality of first barriers successively formed on a substrate at predetermined intervals; a plurality of first sustain electrodes formed at a width more than 40% of a pixel pitch, which is an overall distance of four of the barriers, to be orthogonal to the first barriers; a plurality of second sustain electrodes spaced apart from the first sustain electrodes at a distance less than 20% of the pixel pitch and mated with the first sustain electrodes one by one; a dielectric layer formed at a thickness of 25 &mgr;m or more to cover the first and second sustain electrodes; and a plurality of pads formed on some of the dielectric layer corresponding to the first sustain electrodes and the second sustain electrodes in each discharge cell.

Plasma display panel with improved illuminance

A plasma display panel that is capable of improving the discharge and light-emission efficiencies and the brightness. In the panel, a sustaining electrode pair is formed on an upper substrate in such a manner to be positioned at the edges of a discharge cell. A trigger electrode pair is positioned between the sustaining electrode pair to cause a trigger discharge for deriving a sustaining discharge. Dielectric layers are formed on the sustaining electrode pair and the trigger electrode pair to have a different thickness.

Plasma display panel having trigger electrodes

A plasma display panel in which a white colored screen has an improved picture quality includes: a plurality of first barriers successively formed on a predetermined substrate at constant intervals; a plurality of sustain electrodes successively formed to be orthogonal to the first barriers to form discharge cells between the respective first barriers; and a plurality of second barriers respectively formed between a pair of the sustain electrodes in parallel to the sustain electrodes, having different widths depending on the discharge cell displaying red, the discharge cell displaying green and the discharge cell displaying blue.

Plasma display panel with barriers and electrodes having different widths depending on the discharge cell

A plasma display panel and a driving apparatus, and method of operation thereof, that is capable of improving brightness. A plurality of sustaining electrode groups formed on a front substrate consist of at least three electrodes. The at least three electrodes are set to have a different distance from each other, thereby generating at least two discharges continuously. Each group of three electrodes has a center electrode and two side electrodes, the two side electrodes being spaced at different distances from the center electrode.

Plasma display panel and apparatus and method of driving the same

A structure and driving method for a plasma display panel is disclosed in which discharge efficiency is improved and service-life of phosphors is increased. The structure for a plasma display panel includes a plurality of upper electrodes formed on an upper substrate at certain intervals in one direction, a dielectric layer formed on the upper substrate including the upper electrodes, an auxiliary electrode formed on the dielectric layer between adjacent upper electrodes, a passivation film formed on the dielectric layer including the auxiliary electrode, a lower electrode formed on a lower substrate opposite to the upper electrodes to be orthogonal to the upper electrodes, and a dielectric layer formed on the lower substrate including the lower electrode. The driving method for a plasma display panel includes the steps of generating discharge by a first pulse applied to one electrode of the electrodes, and applying a second pulse to other electrode within 1 &mgr;m from the time when the first pulse is applied to the one electrode.

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Kumi-shi, South Korea

Eun Cheol Lee