Method of driving a plasma display apparatus

摘要

A method of driving a plasma display apparatus that has in each field a predetermined plural number of sub-fields, each comprising a plurality of light emission pulses, and that displays grayscale by combining said sub-fields.
The method is such that when adjusting the number of light emission pulses for control of power consumption, the number of light emission pulses for each of said plurality of sub-fields is determined such that the number of light emission pulses for each sub-field that has a relatively small number of light emission pulses is held unchanged while setting a plurality of ideal values for the combination of said sub-fields by using, as a reference, the brightness of the sub-field having the smallest weight. Of said plurality of ideal values, the ideal value whose total number of light emission pulses is closest to the total number of light emission pulses determined by power control is selected as a reference.