Plasma display apparatus and method of driving plasma display panel

摘要

A plasma display apparatus includes a plasma display panel (PDP) and a driving control section outputting drive control signals to drive the plasma display panel. The PDP includes a front substrate and a rear substrate. A discharge spaces are formed between the front substrate and the rear substrate. The front substrate includes a scanning electrode, a sustaining electrode and a priming discharge electrode. A priming discharge gap and a display gap are formed between predetermined electrodes. The rear substrate includes a data electrode. The drive control signals directs an operation of distributing a field into subfields, generating a priming discharge in the priming discharge gap in the subfields, and generating the priming discharge in the display gap in at least one of the subfields. The PDP is driven based on the first drive control signal.