| 摘要 |
A plasma display apparatus and the method of driving the same are disclosed. The plasma display apparatus includes a plasma display panel in which a plurality of scan electrodes and sustain electrodes are formed on a top substrate to make pairs and address electrodes are formed on a bottom substrate to intersect the scan electrodes and the sustain electrodes, electrode driving parts for driving the scan electrodes, the sustain electrodes, and the address electrodes, and a sustain pulse control part for controlling the driving parts such that the width of the sustain pulse applied to the scan electrodes or the sustain electrodes in the sustain period of the sub-field that displays the lowermost gray scales smaller than the width of the sustain pulses of the sub-fields that display the other gray scales. According to a method of driving the plasma display apparatus, each of a plurality of sub-fields having different number of times of light emission is divided into a reset period, an address period, and a sustain period. The width of the sustain pulse applied in the sustain period of the sub-field that displays the lowermost gray scale among the plurality of sub-fields is smaller than the width of the sustain pulses applied in the sustain periods of the sub-fields that display the other gray scales.
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