Method of driving a surface-discharge type plasma display panel

摘要

A method of driving a surface-discharge type plasma display panel, comprises: providing an address period for selecting picture elements to be lighted and picture elements not to be lighted in accordance with displaying data; providing a discharge maintaining period for alternatively applying discharge maintaining pulses to first and second maintaining electrodes so as to maintain the lighted picture elements and the not-lighted picture elements; applying two discharge maintaining pulses having different phases to every two second maintaining electrodes between which there is a first maintaining electrode serving as a common electrode for the two second maintaining electrodes.