Panasonic Corporation

Pioneer Corporation

Shunsuke Itakura

Tsutomu Tokunaga

Mitsuhiro Ishizuka

Hai Lin

Atsushi Hirota

Kazuo Yahagi

Koji Hashimoto

Hirofumi Honda

Tetsuya Shigeta

Hajime Homma

Yoshichika Sato

Masaru Nishimura

Yuya Shiozaki

Takashi Miyata

Kazuhiro Kanai

Hikaru Takahashi

Tetsuya Shigega

It is an object to provide a driving method of a plasma display panel, whereby a dark contrast can be improved while suppressing an erroneous discharge. In a resetting step in a first unit display period, while a first reset pulse having a predetermined peak electric potential is applied to one of first row electrodes of row electrode pairs formed in the PDP, a second reset pulse having a peak electric potential smaller than that of the first reset pulse is applied to the other of the first row electrodes. In the resetting step in a second unit display period subsequent to the first unit display period, a second reset pulse is applied to each of the one and the other of the first row electrodes.

Driving method of plasma display panel

A drive method of a plasma display panel that can increase the dark contrast, without causing a discharge failure. When a discharge cell that assumes a black display state in a first field from among first and a second fields that are adjacent in time and switches to a display state representing a brightness other than black in the second field is detected as a lighting transition cell, at least one drive of the below-described first and second forced lighting drives is executed. In the first forced lighting drive, the lighting transition cell is forcibly set into the lighting mode only in the address process of a predetermined subfield within the field in the first field. In the second forced lighting drive, an adjacent discharge cell that is adjacent to the lighting transition cell is forcibly set into the lighting mode only in the address process of the predetermined subfield in the second field.

Drive method of plasma display panel

A plasma display driving method in which, in an erase stage of a last sub-field of a one-field display period, a scanning pulse is sequentially applied to one row electrode of each of the row electrode pairs for each scanning line or for each scanning line group having a plurality of scanning lines, while an erase pulse is applied to column electrodes simultaneously with the application of the scanning pulse, to cause an erase discharge between the one row electrode and each of the column electrodes to which the erase pulse is applied.

Method for driving plasma display panel

A method of driving a plasma display panel for avoiding an erroneous discharge. The plasma display panel has display cells formed at respective intersections of row electrode pairs and a column electrode, wherein one field of a video signal is comprised of a plurality of sub-fields, and a reset period is provided prior to an addressing period of a starting sub-field. The method has a light emission load state detection stage for detecting a light emission load state of the plasma display panel according to the video signal in the preceding field, and a first stage in the reset period for applying the first row electrodes with a pulse of a first polarity which has an applied voltage value increased over time to reach a predetermined target potential, wherein the first stage includes controlling the target potential of the first polarity pulse according to the light emission load state.

Method of driving plasma display panel

Each of the red, green and blue phosphor layers includes magnesium oxide including a magnesium oxide crystal body having properties of causing a cathode-luminescence emission having a peak within a wavelength range of 200 nm to 300 nm upon excitation by electron beams, as a secondary electron emission.

Plasma display panel and method for driving same

A plasma display panel and a drive method therefor, which can enhance a representation capability when displaying a dark image. The plasma display panel includes fluorophor layers containing magnesium oxide. The drive method includes a reset step to initialize all the pixel cells into states of one of a light-up mode and a light-off mode, and an address step in which the pixel cells are caused to perform address discharges selectively in accordance with pixel data, which are successively executed in each of a head subfield and a second subfield within a one-field display period. In reset step, a voltage that sets row electrodes on one side, in the row electrode pairs as an anode and sets the column electrodes set as a cathode is applied between the row electrodes on the one side and the column electrodes.

Plasma display panel and drive method therefor

A plasma display panel driving method in which a reset step and an address step are sequentially executed in the first subfield and second subfield of each field. A microemission step is executed in the first subfield for generating a microemission discharge between ones of the row electrodes and the column electrodes in display cells in the ON mode by applying a voltage for using the ones of the row electrodes as the anode and the column electrodes as the cathode, between the electrodes immediately after the address step. Moreover, in the microemission step, a potential lower than the voltage generated when applying a sustain pulse is respectively applied to the ones and the others of the row electrodes while applying a voltage as described above between the ones of the row electrodes and the column electrodes.

Plasma display panel driving method

A method for driving a plasma display panel that can generate stable and reliable discharge without making the circuit configuration of the driver complicated. According to this drive method, a plasma display panel where a pixel cell is formed at each intersection of a plurality of column electrodes and a plurality of row electrode pairs is driven such that, in a sustain process of at least one subfield out of subfields in one field display period, an auxiliary discharge is generated along with the sustain discharge in the pixel cell by applying an auxiliary pulse to the column electrode only while a first sustain pulse is being applied.

To provide a driving method of a plasma display panel capable of improving a dark contrast while preventing a spurious discharge. A discharge is produced in discharge cells only in an address erasing process for one subfield selected from a plurality of subfields constituting a unit display period, so that the states of the discharge cells are changed to a non-light emitting state. An address writing process for producing a discharge in the discharge cells so as to set the discharge cells to a light emitting state is performed before the address erasing process in the first one of the subfields. In this case, in either of the address writing process and the address erasing process, the discharge is produced between one of the row electrode pairs and the column electrodes by supplying a voltage for charging the column electrodes to a negative polarity between the one of the row electrode pairs and the column electrodes.

The discharge space defined between the front glass substrate and the back glass substrate is filled with a discharge gas including 10 or more vol % of xenon. A MgO layer including MgO crystals causing a cathode-luminescence emission having a peak within a wavelength range of 200 nm to 300 nm upon excitation by an electron beam is provided in a position facing the discharge cell formed in the discharge space.

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Shunsuke Itakura