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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 27, 2001
Filed:
Aug. 27, 1999
Yoon-phil Eo, Cheonan, KR;
Jeong-duk Ryeom, Cheonan, KR;
Samsung Display Devices Co., Ltd., Kyungki-do, KR;
Abstract
An apparatus for driving a plasma display panel in which front and rear substrates face and are spaced apart from each other, common electrode lines, scan electrode lines and address electrode lines are arranged between the front and rear substrates, the common electrode lines are arranged parallel to the scan electrode lines and the address electrode lines are arranged orthogonal to the scan electrode lines to define pixels at intersections thereof, the apparatus including a scan drive part having a memory in which scan data are stored in a predetermined scanning order, for applying a scan drive signal to the scan electrode lines in accordance with scan data corresponding to an input address, an address drive part for applying an address drive signal to the corresponding address electrode lines in accordance with an input display data signal, a common drive part for applying a common drive signal to the common electrode lines in accordance with an input common data signal, and a control part for processing externally input image data and generating the address, the display data signal and the common data signal.