Method of controlling alternating current plasma display panel with positive priming discharge pulse and negative priming discharge pulse

摘要

A plasma display panel produces a visual image through selective firing in indicating cells, and all of the indicating cells are faintly fired in a priming discharge period before the selective firing; a positive (Pp+) pulse and a negative pulse (Pp-) are applied to scanning electrodes (Scl to Scj) and sustain electrodes (Sul to Suj) in such a manner as to be partially overlapped with each other, and the pulse amplitude of each pulse is relatively low so as to prevent data electrodes (D1 to Dk) from undesirable discharge, thereby making the luminance in the priming discharge period small.