Fujitsu Corporation

Hitachi, Ltd.

Fujitsu Hitachi Plasma Display Limited

Kunio Takayama

Kenji Awamoto

Yasunobu Hashimoto

Tomokatsu Kishi

Koichi Sakita

Katsuya Irie

Yoshimi Kawanami

Osamu Toyoda

Kazuo Yoshikawa

Yasushi Yoneda

Tetsuya Sakamoto

Yasuhiko Kunii

Naoki Itokawa

Takahiro Takamori

Takayuki Kobayashi

In a conventional method of driving a plasma display panel, for example, an auxiliary discharge is executed between an A electrode and a Y electrode to improve light-emission efficiency of a display discharge. However, since a phosphor layer is present between the A electrode and the Y electrode, the phosphor layer is exposed to a discharge, whereby there is a problem that its characteristic deteriorates. A method of driving a plasma display panel having a structure, in which at least three display electrodes X, Y, and Z used for a display discharge are provided to a display cell and no phosphor layer is formed between said display electrodes and a discharge space, the method comprising the steps of: varying a potential of at least one display electrode Z of said display electrodes during said display discharge; and making a potential of said at least one display electrode Z at a time of starting said display discharge different from that at a time of ending said display discharge.

Plasma display panel driving method and plasma display apparatus

A method for driving a plasma display panel is provided in which a time necessary for an addressing process is shortened without using any special driving component. The method comprises an addressing process that includes the steps of setting light emission operation of the cells of a display of one screen, starting j-th row selection at a point during (j-1)th row selection, and changing the data electrodes from a control state corresponding to display data of the (j-1)th row to a control state corresponding to display data of the j-th row during a period in which the (j-1)th row selection and the j-th row selection are overlapped with each other.

Method for driving plasma display panel

A data conversion circuit is provided for displaying a high definition image whose resolution is different from that of a display screen having a cell arrangement that is not a square arrangement. The data conversion circuit performs addition operation with weighting that is also resolution conversion of the integer ratio M:N and data correction for improving a linear display quality for input image data.

Data conversion circuit and color image display apparatus

A method for driving a plasma display panel is provided in which dynamic pseudo contours are reduced and pattern noises are suppressed so that image quality of an animation display is improved. In the method, a superposition method is applied only to the area of a display image, which is made of pixels having a gradation at which only one of plural subframes having the same luminance weight concerning the superposition method is lighted and has a luminance gradient within a preset value range between the neighboring pixels.

Method and device for implementing subframe display to reduce the pseudo contour in plasma display panels

An image display device is provided, which can secure a predetermined display quality regardless of a type of an input image. The color image display device comprises a display device having a delta arrangement screen, a driving circuit, an image decision circuit for deciding which of plural predetermined types an input image is, a memory circuit for memorizing temporarily at least a part of input image data for one frame, an operation circuit for performing an operation process having preset contents in accordance with image data for plural pixels including image data read out of the memory circuit, and an operation control circuit for switching the contents of the operation process in the operation circuit in response to the output of the image decision circuit.

Color image display device

A driving method of a plasma display panel is provided in which background light emission is reduced so that display contrast is improved. The method comprises the steps of resetting for equalizing wall charge in cells constituting a screen, addressing for controlling potentials of address electrodes crossing display electrodes in accordance with display data, and sustaining for applying a sustaining voltage to the cells so as to generate display discharges. The address electrodes are grouped in accordance with discharge characteristics of cells corresponding to each address electrode. In the resetting step, potential control that is unique to each group is performed so that luminance of the discharge light emission in the reset becomes uniform among cells having different discharge characteristics.

Driving method of plasma display panel and display devices

A method for driving a plasma display panel is provided, in which an addressing unsusceptible to influence of a variation of operating environment without increasing withstand voltage of circuit components. The method comprises the steps of replacing a frame with a plurality of subframes having luminance weights, setting on or off of light emission of cells for each of the subframes so as to realize a gradation display and providing a drive halt period between at least one of the plural subframe periods allocated to each of the subframes and the next subframe period only when a display load exceeds a preset value.

Method and device for driving plasma display panel

A method for driving an AC type plasma display panel is provided in which time necessary for addressing can be shortened without deteriorating stability of a display. Before the addressing, a reset process is performed by applying an increasing waveform voltage between a reference potential line and a scan electrode so as to equalize charge in all cells. In the addressing, a selection voltage Vya having the same polarity as a final applied voltage Vyr in the reset process and an absolute value larger than the voltage Vyr by a potential difference &Dgr;Vy is applied between a scan electrode corresponding to a selected row and the reference potential line.

Method and device for driving an AC type PDP

A plasma display panel that can enlarge the voltage margin and can realize a stable display is provided. The plasma display panel includes first and second display electrodes X, Y for generating surface discharge and address electrodes A that cross the display electrodes via a dielectric layer. In the preparation process of the addressing for forming charge distribution corresponding to display contents, charge forming and charge adjusting are performed. The charge forming generates wall voltage having the same polarity at the same kind of interelectrode of all cells constituting the screen, for three kinds of interelectrodes, an interelectrode XY between the display electrodes, an interelectrode XA between the first display electrode and the address electrode, and an interelectrode YA between the second display electrode and the address electrode. The charge adjusting decreases the wall voltage by applying an increasing voltage that increases continuously or step by step.

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