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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 17, 2006
Filed:
Jun. 12, 2003
Kunio Takayama, Kawasaki, JP;
Kenji Awamoto, Kawasaki, JP;
Yasunobu Hashimoto, Kawasaki, JP;
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A method for driving a plasma display panel is provided in which a time necessary for an addressing process is shortened without using any special driving component. The method comprises an addressing process that includes the steps of setting light emission operation of the cells of a display of one screen, starting j-th row selection at a point during (j-1)th row selection, and changing the data electrodes from a control state corresponding to display data of the (j-1)th row to a control state corresponding to display data of the j-th row during a period in which the (j-1)th row selection and the j-th row selection are overlapped with each other.