Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Matsushita Electronics Corporation

Panasonic Corporation

Takao Wakitani

Yukiharu Ito

Kazunori Hirao

Takio Okamoto

Toru Hirayama

Taichi Shino

Koichi Itsuda

Makoto Kawachi

Tsuneo Ikura

Yuichi Ishikawa

Mitsuhiro Kasahara

Tomoko Morita

Naoki Kosugi

Koichi Wani

Takatsugu Kurata

Shinji Masuda

Tadayuki Masumori

Akio Niwa

Hajime Mae

Toshiya Otani

Takuma Higashi

Toshio Wakahara

Akira Yawata

Kumetsugu Yamamoto

Seiji Matsubara

Kouichi Nomura

Kouichi Itsuda

An improved method of testing and inspecting a plasma display panel. In a plasma display panel, a plurality of cells are formed at an intersection of each electrode disposed in a row direction and in a column direction of the panel. A field is formed of a plurality of sub-fields, and the combination of the sub-fields enables the panel to have a gradation display. In the inspection method, an address pulse voltage is not applied to a target cell to be inspected in a predetermined sub-field, but is applied to at least one cell of the cells adjacent to the target cell, and the address pulse voltage is applied to the target cell in the successive sub-field. If the barrier ribs of the target cell have an imperfection, wall charges of the cell are affected by the discharge occurred in an adjacent cell, and the target cell fails to light on in the successive sub-field. The inspection method can thus detect lighting failure caused by defective barrier ribs.

Testing and inspecting method of a plasma display panel

A light inspection device for performing lighting inspection of a display panel contains a circuit board having a driving circuit for a lighting display panel; a conductive chassis that functions as the ground potential of the driving circuit; and a conductive support member fixed to the chassis for fixing the circuit board. The chassis and the support member are joined via soft metal.

Lighting inspection device for plasma display panel and display panel producing method

The display device of the present invention is provided with a means (8) for setting the writing pulse width of the attentional light-emitting sub-field wider than the normal writing pulse width at all the gray scale levels in the case where at least two continuous non-light-emitting sub-fields possibly exist before the attentional light-emitting sub-field at a certain gray scale level among all the gray scale levels specified on the basis of the number Z of sub-fields and the weighting of the sub-fields. According to the display device of the present invention, the discharge for writing can be stably executed without reducing the number of sub-fields in one field.

Plasma panel display device

A method of driving an AC plasma display panel for carrying out gray-scale display using a structure in which each field consists of a plurality of subfields, each of which includes an initialization period, a write period, and a sustain period. At least in one predetermined subfield out of the plurality of subfields, at least a part of a sustain operation in the sustain period and at least a part of an initialization operation in the initialization period in a subsequent subfield are carried out at the same time. The visibility of black is improved considerably and the contrast can be enhanced greatly.

Method of driving AC plasma display panel

A method for displaying an image with gradation and a high brightness with a plasma display panel is provided. In this method, one field is divided into eight subfields, and each subfield is divided into an addressing period and sustaining period. In the upper four bits b,, b,, b,, and b,, in which the sustaining period is long, all of the scanning electrodes are scanned sequentially. In the lower four bits b,, b,, b,and b,, in which the sustaining period is short, the scanning electrodes are scanned alternately by interlace scanning.

Method for displaying gradation with plasma display panel

In a method of driving an AC-type plasma display panel in which a first insulation substrate and a second insulation substrate are disposed so as to be opposed to each other, pairs of scanning electrodes and sustaining electrodes covered with a dielectric layer and a protective layer are arranged on the first insulation substrate and at least data electrodes are arranged on the second insulation substrate so as to be orthogonal to the pairs of scanning and sustaining electrodes, immediately after termination of application of a sustaining pulse voltage to one of the scanning electrodes and the sustaining electrodes, the sustaining pulse voltage is applied to the other.

Method for driving AC-type plasma display panel

A plurality of scanning electrodes and a plurality of sustaining electrodes parallel to each other are located on an inner face of a first glass substrate. Each of the scanning electrodes and each of the sustaining electrodes form a pair. A dielectric layer and a protection layer are formed on the first glass substrate in this order, covering the electrodes. A plurality of data electrodes perpendicular to the scanning electrodes and the sustaining electrodes are located on an inner face of a second glass substrate which is located opposed to the first glass substrate with a discharge space interposed therebetween. In an AC-type PDP having such a structure, at least one of the plurality of scanning electrodes and the plurality of sustaining electrodes are divided into a plurality of groups, and pulses having different phases are applied to the electrodes in different groups, thereby causing sustaining discharge. The scanning electrodes and the sustaining electrodes may be comb-like with teeth. The comb-like scanning electrodes and the comb-like sustaining electrodes are opposed to each other with a small gap interposed therebetween in the manner that the teeth thereof are in engagement with each other. In such a case, the data electrodes are located opposed to and in a longitudinal direction of the teeth of the scanning electrodes.

Gas discharge display apparatus and method for driving the same

The plasma display panel having brightness display ranges comprising a gradation brightness display range which displays gradation brightness corresponding to the input signals under a preset input signal level and a constant brightness display range which displays a constant peak brightness greater than the maximum brightness corresponding to input signals greater than the preset input signal level. The plasma display panel can provide the gradation display up to the maximum brightness corresponding to the input signals up to the maximum input and provide the constant peak brightness corresponding to the peak level input by adding one additional weighting bit for the higher gradation. Consequently, a high quality brightness display with high mean value of the brightness and sufficiently high peak brightness can be achieved. Furthermore, the plasma display panel enhances the brightness weighting value and the value of .gamma. for the reverse .gamma. correction when the input signals go over the preset value and decrease the values to the original values when the input signals drop below the preset value. The plasma display panel can provide the gradation display up to the maximum brightness corresponding to the input signals up to the maximum input signal and provide the gradation display up to the peak brightness greater than the maximum brightness corresponding to the input signals over the maximum input signal. Consequently, high quality display with high brightness and high contrast without exceeding the maximum permissible power consumption can be achieved.

Plasma display panel and method of controlling brightness of the same

A display device driving for a gray scale expression, wherein at least a sub-field having the highest luminance value among plural sub-fields is further divided into a plurality of sub-field parts.

Display device driving for a gray scale expression, and a driving

Gas discharge display apparatus

A plurality of filaments are stretched in parallel on a rear plate, and an insulating plate is provided so as to cover the filaments. In the insulating plate, a plurality of through-holes are formed along the longitudinal direction of the respective filaments for exposing parts thereof. Each through-hole and phosphor layers, which are provided on the insulating layer adjacent to the through-hole, constitute one unit picture element. The respective phosphor layers in the respective picture element are installed in a plurality of cavities formed in a rib provided on a lower surface of the insulating plate, whereby separated from the neighboring phosphor layers. The respective cavities function as a discharge room, with a light-transmissive front plate, formed on the rib, as a lid and a portion of the insulating plate corresponding to the phosphor layer as a bottom. The respective discharge rooms overlap the through-hole at one end in the longitudinal direction thereof. A part of the filaments is exposed to the discharge room via the through-hole so as to act as a cathode. In addition, an anode exists respectively at the other end of the respective discharge rooms. In this manner, a luminescent panel for color video display, with a plurality of picture elements arranged in a matrix with a narrowed-pitch and a high density, is provided.

Luminescent panel for color video display and its driving system, and a

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