PLASMA DISPLAY DEVICE DRIVE CIRCUIT IDENTIFIES SIGNAL FORMAT OF THE INPUT VIDEO SIGNAL TO SELECT PREVIOUSLY DETERMINED CONTROL INFORMATION TO DRIVE THE DISPLAY

摘要

A plasma display device and a method of driving a plasma display which are capable of performing suitable display control in response to the signal format of an input signal are provided. Either a television signal or a graphic signal is inputted as the input signal. A signal format identification circuit (4) identifies whether the signal format of the input signal is the television signal or the graphic signal. A mode-by-mode control signal generating portion (5) determines the driving sequence of a driving circuit (7) in response to the identified signal format to perform the driving control of the driving circuit (7). Then, a display panel (8) is driven in response to the signal format of the input signal to display an image.