PLASMA DISPLAY PANEL DRIVE METHOD AND PLASMA DISPLAY DEVICE

摘要

A panel drive method and a plasma display device which increase the luminance of a panel and enable further reduction of power consumption are provided with the following configuration. One field is composed of a plurality of subfields including a address period during which a address discharge is selectively induced in discharge cells and a sustain period during which sustain pulses the number of which corresponds to the luminance weight are applied to induce sustain discharges in the discharge cells where the address discharges are induced. The plasma display device has a sustain pulse generating circuit composed of a power recovering circuit for inducing the rise and fall of each sustain pulse by resonating the inter-electrode capacity of a display electrode pair with an inductor and a clamp section for clamping the voltage of the sustain pulses to a predetermined voltage. The repetition period of the sustain pulse can be set according to the average luminance level of the image signal.