METHOD FOR DRIVING PLASMA DISPLAY PANEL

摘要

A method for driving a panel in which one field period is constituted by arranging subfields each having an initialization period during which an initialization discharge is generated in a discharge cell, a write period during which a write discharge is selectively generated in the discharge cell, and a sustain period during which a sustain discharge is generated the number of times corresponding to a luminance weight in the discharge cell. The method for driving the panel is characterized in that one field period is constituted by arranging subfield groups each composed of subfields in which the luminance weight monotonically increases, a hold period during which no discharge is generated is provided before the first subfield included in at least one subfield group out of the subfield groups, and that during the initialization period of the first subfield included in the at least one subfield group, an initialization operation for generating the initialization discharge is performed in the discharge cell in which the sustain discharge has been generated during the sustain period of the immediately preceding subfield.