DRIVING METHOD FOR FAST ADDRESSING TECHNIQUE IN AN AC-PDP

摘要

The present invention relates generally to a method of driving alternating current plasma display panel and, more particularly, to a driving method, in which in an address period, a discharge initiating pulse and a wall charge accumulating pulse are applied to a scan electrode and an address pulse having an interval superposed on the discharge initiating pulse is applied to an address electrode, so that the width of the address pulse required for an address process is considerably reduced, thus being capable of performing high-speed addressing. The present invention provides a method of driving an Alternating Current (AC) Plasma Display Panel (PDP) in an address period to write image data, the AC PDP having a plurality of discharge cells for implementing images and a plurality of scan and address electrodes (Y and Z) for controlling the discharge cells, including, for a first line, a) an address discharge initiating step of initiating a discharge by applying a discharge initiating scan pulse to a scan electrode according to the image data, and an address pulse having a polarity opposite to that of the discharge initiating scan pulse to an address electrode while the scan pulse is applied; and b) a wall charge accumulating step of applying a wall charge accumulating scan pulse having a polarity opposite to that of the discharge initiating scan pulse and voltage size and width adjustable according to a number of wall charges desired to be accumulated.