PLASMA DISPLAY UNIT AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME

摘要

A plasma display unit has a plasma display panel (PDP) having a first substrate and a second substrate which face each other via a discharge space, and a drive section for driving the PDP. The first substrate has a holding electrode (XE), a scanning electrode (YE), and an address electrode (AE). The drive section has an address electrode voltage applying section (ADRC) including a first transistor (PM1) for applying the supply voltage (Vadd) to the address electrode (AE) on the basis of the address control signal (ACNT) during an addressing period and a second transistor (NM1) for applying the ground voltage (GND) to the address electrode (AE) when the first transistor (PM1) turns off during the addressing period. The drive section also has a power supply shutoff section (PS110) to shut off the ground voltage (GND) to be supplied to the address electrode voltage applying section (ADRC) during a sustain period, thereby allowing power consumption to be reduced.