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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 11, 2006
Filed:
Mar. 21, 2003
Mitsuyoshi Makino, Tokyo, JP;
Mitsuyoshi Makino, Tokyo, JP;
Pioneer Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A method of driving a plasma display panel including a plurality of scanning electrodes covered with a dielectric layer, and a plurality of sustaining electrodes covered with a dielectric layer, including the steps of (a) applying scanning pulses in time-division to the scanning electrodes in an addressing period in which a cell or cells emitting light is(are) selected, and applying sustaining pulses to the sustaining electrodes in a sustaining period for generating preliminary discharge and preliminary erasing discharge before the cell or cells emitting light is(are) selected, and (b) applying a serrate pulse to the scanning or sustaining electrodes when the preliminary erasing discharge is generated, the serrate pulse having an inclination smaller than 10 V/μs, wherein a period of time until the generation of the preliminary erasing discharge from the termination of the preliminary discharge is set shorter than 3T where T indicates a decay time constant of priming particles.