Fujitsu Hitachi Plasma Display Limited

Hitachi, Ltd.

Fujitsu Corporation

Takashi Shiizaki

Hitoshi Hirakawa

Akihiro Takagi

Masaki Kamada

Takashi Sasaki

Tomokatsu Kishi

Hirohito Kuriyama

Noriaki Setoguchi

Takayuki Shimizu

Satoru Nishimura

Tatsuhiko Kawasaki

Akira Yamamoto

Yoshimi Kawanami

Shinsuke Tanaka

Fumihiro Namiki

Makoto Onozawa

Tadayoshi Kosaka

Hideaki Ohki

Katsuhiro Ishida

Eiji Ito

Tetsuya Sakamoto

Yasuhiko Kunii

Ayahito Kojima

Katsuya Irie

Kazushige Takagi

Takashi Katayama

Akihiro Machida

Sojiro Hagihara

Tetsuya Kaminaka

Shingo Kubo

Provided is a technique of a PDP device capable of preventing error display arising from changes in discharge characteristics in a reset period particularly due to a long-period operation. In the PDP device, a slope of a slope waveform in the reset period is changed corresponding to operation time of the PDP device. And, the slope waveform is made to have a configuration having a stepwise plurality of slopes in a predetermined reset period. For example, when the operation time becomes long, rising and falling slope waveforms of a reset waveform are configured by two steps, and a first slope thereof is made steeper than a slope before the change, and a second slope is made gentle than the slope before the change. When the operation become longer, the first slope is made further steeper and the subsequent second slope is made further gentler.

Plasma display device and plasma display panel drive method

In a PDP apparatus provided with a PDP having (X, Y, A) and various drivers, two adjacent Ys in a plurality of Ys are commonly connected by a wiring so as to form one set unit, in the vicinity of a connection portion of the PDP and the drivers. A two-stage reset and address operation control using a reset operation including an address disable operation is used for a control unit including a plurality of display lines (L) of the set units. In a plurality of Ls as objects of drive display, the reset and address operation of first Ls (Lo) corresponding to Ys on one side of set units and that of second Ls (Le) corresponding to Ys on the other side thereof are performed separately in former and latter periods, and then, sustain operations of the first and second Ls on both sides are performed simultaneously.

Plasma display apparatus

In the PDP device, for example, two types of SF lighting patterns (A and B modes) are equally divided and arranged in spatially different regions in a field. For example, the patterns are arranged in a zigzag manner in units of pixels. At all lighting steps, existence of an absence of light-on SF which becomes a cause of false contour is permitted only in one mode. Accordingly, a generation rate of absence of light-on SF per field when the modes are combined is low, and the level of false contour can be reduced. Further, the spatial arrangement of each mode is optionally changed among the fields.

Method for grayscale display processing for multi-grayscale display to reduce false contours in a plasma display device

There is provided a plasma display device including a slope waveform generating circuit which supplies to an electrode a slope waveform of which voltage changes with the lapse of time, the electrode being formed in a capacitive load to serves as a display element in a display panel for displaying images, wherein the slope waveform generating circuit includes: a plurality of power supplies which supply different voltages; and a switching circuit which selects one power supply out of the a plurality of power supplies and supplies a voltage to the electrode, wherein the switching circuit switches the power supply, which supplies a voltage to the electrode, in accordance with a voltage being supplied to the electrode.

Display device and method of driving the same using plural voltages

A PDP apparatus comprises, in a circuit part, a ramp output device which outputs a ramp wave to electrodes of a PDP. The ramp output device has a ramp generator which generates and outputs a first ramp wave of which inclination is variable, an impedance conversion circuit which receives the first ramp wave as input and outputs a second ramp wave produced by impedance conversion, and a feedback circuit which receives the second ramp wave as input and feeds it back to the input of the ramp generator. The ramp generator outputs the second ramp wave as a ramp wave (output voltage). Techniques to realize output of stabilized ramp wave in a PDP apparatus so as to stabilize PDP display operations are provided.

A driving circuit of a plasma display panel is provided in which a display cell including a first electrode and a second electrode is selected to light up, for applying a first voltage Vsto the first electrode and a second voltage Vsto the second electrode adjacent to the first electrode to cause a sustain discharge between the first and second electrodes. The driving circuit generates a sustain discharge voltage such that, during the sustain discharge between the first and second electrodes, an applied voltage Vc to a third electrode adjacent to the first electrode opposite to the second electrode falls within a range Vs&#x2266;Vc&#x3c;Vs, and, in this case, when a display cell including the third electrode is selected to light up, the polarity of a wall charge formed on the third electrode becomes positive.

Driving circuit of plasma display panel and plasma display panel

In a plasma display device having a reduced discharge-current-induced voltage fluctuation and an expanded drive margin and being successful in preventing the display characteristics from being degraded, a Y-electrode drive circuit and an X-electrode drive circuit for supplying a drive voltage to the capacitance which represents a display cell are configured using parallel circuits in which first switching elements having a high-speed-switching performance and second switching elements having a low-saturation-voltage performance are connected in parallel, so that the second switching elements having the low-saturation-voltage performance are turned on at least during a period that discharge current flows therebetween.

Plasma display device

A method of driving a plasma display panel, which includes controlling a charge state of a first display line being one of the two adjacent display lines utilizing the same single scan electrode, such that address discharge is not generated and controlling a charge state of a second display line being the other of the two adjacent display lines, such that address discharge can be generated, and then generating address discharge in the second display line, controlling the charge state of the second display line such that address discharge is not generated and controlling the charge state of the first display line such that the address discharge can be generated, and then generating address discharge in the first display line, and generating surface discharge simultaneously in the first and second display lines, thereby to achieve progressive display.

Method of driving plasma display panel

A driving method of a plasma display panel is provided in which effective resolution and luminance in a display of fields that constitute a frame are improved. The method includes dividing each of M (M&#x2267;2) fields that constitute a frame into K (K&#x2267;2) subfields having luminance weight, displaying the k (1&#x2266;k&#x3c;K) subfields selected in descending order of the luminance weight in progressive format using all display lines out of the K subfields and displaying the remaining subfields in interlaced format using the display lines selected at regular intervals at a ratio of one per M display lines in arrangement order.

Method for driving plasma display panel

A driving method of a plasma display panel having a display electrodes arranged at the ratio of three per two rows is provided, in which all rows are lighted in sustaining period from an addressing period to the next addressing period and electromagnetic interference is reduced sufficiently. A display discharge is generated by controlling potentials of the display electrodes so as to satisfy two conditions. One condition is that there is a pair of display electrodes having terminals at the same side of the display screen and current directions opposite to each other. Another condition is to generate a potential difference across the display electrodes, which is necessary for discharging. Magnetic fields are canceled by each other in the pair of electrodes having current directions opposite to each other, so that electromagnetic interference is reduced.

Driving method of plasma display panel and display device

A plasma display panel is provided in which color temperature of the displayed color can be optimized while securing the gradation reproducibility and the stability of driving. The plasma display panel includes a screen in which a plurality of cells arranged in rows and columns emits light by electric discharge between a pair of main electrodes, and each pixel of matrix display has first, second and third cells having different light colors. At least one of the effective area of the main electrode, the thickness of the dielectric layer, the relative dielectric constant of the dielectric material, and the area of the light shield for the first cell is different from that of the second cell.

Color plasma display panel with pixels of three colors having adjustable light intensities

A driving method, able to realize a PDP device having a reduced background luminance and high display quality, has been disclosed. The driving method is a method for driving a plasma display panel consisting of plural display electrodes forming pairs of electrodes, plural address electrodes, and display cells formed at the intersections of the pairs of electrodes and the address electrodes, comprising an initialization period, an address period, a charge form period during which a charge form pulse is applied to the pair of electrodes, and a sustain discharge period during which a sustain discharge light emission is caused to occur, wherein the initialization period comprises a write period during which first amount of charges is accumulated in the display cells and a charge adjust period during which the amount of charges accumulated during the write period is adjusted to second amount of charges, and wherein the voltage to be applied to the pair of electrodes is an inclined wave-shaped charge adjust pulse, the voltage of which varies gradually and the absolute value of the voltage of the charge form pulse is greater than the absolute value of the voltage of the sustain discharge pulse.

Method for driving plasma display panel and plasma display device

A plasma display panel and a method of driving the same are provided in which circuit elements necessary for controlling potentials of scan electrodes can be reduced without using a complicated multilayered wiring. In the plasma display panel, k (k&#x2267;2) data electrodes, each of which is continuous from one end of a column to the other end, are arranged for each column of a matrix display. All scan electrodes in a display screen are classified into k groups, and one of k groups is assigned to k data electrodes in each column. Each data electrode is crossed with or opposed to scan electrodes belonging to the group that is assigned to the data electrode without overlapping a partition in a plan view and is crossed with or opposed to other scan electrodes with overlapping the partition.

Plasma display panel and method of driving the same

A progressive display is realized that has an electrode structure in which two neighboring rows share a display electrode. A PDP has display electrodes arranged so that two neighboring rows share one electrode for display, and the display electrodes crosses an address electrode in each column. A row selection is performed by temporarily biasing one display electrode Yof the electrode pair corresponding to the selected row to the selecting potential Vy, while an addressing is performed by controlling the potential of the address electrode Ain accordance with the display data. At that time, the cell-selecting voltage Vay that is applied to the interelectrode AY between the display electrode Yand the address electrode Amade lower than the discharge starting voltage Vof the interelectrode AY. A row selection voltage Vxy that is lower than the discharge starting voltage Vis applied to the interelectrode XY between the display electrodes of the electrode pair corresponding to the selected row, so that an address discharge is generated.

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