Method and apparatus for driving plasma display panel

摘要

A method for driving an interlace system plasma display panel comprising applying a pulse (Vw)higher than a discharge start voltage at the end of a sustain discharge period for a period in which only a cell that has executed a sustain discharge and cells adjacent to the former cell start discharge, executing an erase discharge of the cell that has executed the sustain discharge, and at times, the cells adjacent to the former cell, and when a given field is switched over to another field, executing a similar discharge, i.e., the whole surface write operation and a self-erase discharge, of the cell that has executed display before the switch-over of the given field before the whole surface write operation and the self-erase discharge are effected in the cell that is to execute display after the switch-over of the given field. This driving method applies a pulse having an opposite polarity of the polarity of the whole surface write pulse for a period longer than the pulse width of the sustain discharge pulse (Vs). An apparatus for driving a plasma display panel by using the driving method is also disclosed.