Pioneer Corporation

Pioneer Display Products Corporation

Shizuoka Pioneer Corporation

Mitsunori Taguchi

Tsutomu Tokunaga

Nobuhiko Saegusa

Shigeru Iwaoka

Hideto Nakamura

Yasuhiro Torisaki

A method for driving a display panel with which the dark contrast can be improved is provided. Each of at least two successive sub-fields including a leading sub-field includes a selective write addressing step for setting the discharge cells to a lighted discharge cell mode by selectively causing a writing discharge in the discharge cells in accordance with the video signal. The sub-fields following at least two sub-fields include a selective erasure addressing step for setting the discharge cells to an unlighted discharge cell mode by selectively causing an erasing discharge in the discharge cells in accordance with the video signal and an emission sustain step for repeatedly causing a sustain discharge corresponding to a weighting of that sub-field only in the discharge cells that are in the lighted discharge cell mode. The last sub-field of each field includes a first erasing step for inducing a first erasing discharge between the column electrode and one of the row electrodes of the row electrode pair belonging to the discharge cells that have been set to the unlighted discharge cell mode in the selective erasure addressing step and a second erasing step for inducing a second erasing discharge between the row electrodes of the row electrode pair belonging to the discharge cells that have been set to the lighted discharge cell mode in the selective write addressing step, the first erasing step and the second erasing step being performed immediately after the emission sustain step.

Method for driving display panel

A method of driving a plasma display panel minimizes occurrence of complementary color ghost images (afterimage). Reset pulses are applied to a plurality of row electrode pairs to trigger a reset discharge in all discharge cells. The reset pulses include a first reset pulse that is applied to one of the row electrodes of each row electrode pair and a second reset pulse that is applied to the other row electrode at the same time that the first reset pulse is applied and has a polarity opposite that of the first reset pulse. The first and second reset pulses have different voltage levels.

Plasma display panel driving method

A plasma display panel, in which the area of a pair of transparent electrodes forming a pair of row electrodes within at least a discharge cell for one color display out of discharge cells for respective color display as partitioned cells by means of bus electrodes and barriers is made different from the area of the pairs of transparent electrodes within discharge cells for other color display.

Plasma display panel

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Yamanashi, Japan

Mitsunori Taguchi