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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 17, 2004
Filed:
Sep. 01, 1999
Jih Fon Huang, Chu-Bei, TW;
AU Optronics Corp., Hsinchu, TW;
Abstract
The present invention describes a method and apparatus of driving a plasma display panel that can reduce dynamic contour. The plasma display panel includes a plurality of scanning lines (for example, 600 scanning lines) Further, a subframe is completed by the three successive steps of resetting, scanning, and sustaining of scanning lines. Moreover, a full frame picture includes a plurality of subframes (for example, eight subframes in a gray plasma display panel with 256 colors). Each subframe sustains according to a predetermined ratio to obtain a plurality of colors. The present invention characterized by: first, dividing the scanning lines into a plurality of groups. Then, sustaining each group of subframes according to a different order in a full frame picture.