PLASMA DISPLAY DEVICE AND PLASMA DISPLAY PANEL DRIVE METHOD

摘要

A plasma display panel drive method for increasing the luminance of the panel and enabling reduction of power consumption and a plasma display device are provided. The plasma display device has a sustaining pulse generating circuit composed of a power recovering section for inducing the rise and fall of each sustaining pulse by resonating the electrode-to-electrode capacitance of a display electrode pair with an inductor and a clamp section for clamping the voltage of the sustaining pulses to a predetermined voltage. The sustaining pulse generating circuit performs drive in such a way that it generates sustaining pulses within the sustaining period including a sustaining pulse whose rise time is different and a sustaining pulse for inducing the last sustained discharge within the sustaining period is not the sustaining pulse whose rise time is the longest.