Abstract: A method for driving a plasma display panel having front and rear substrates opposed to and facing each other, X and Y electrode lines between the front and rear substrates and parallel to each other and address electrode lines orthogonal to the X and Y electrode lines, to define corresponding pixels at intersections. In the driving method, a scan pulse is applied to the respective Y electrode lines with a time difference and the corresponding display data signals are simultaneously applied to the respective address electrode lines to form wall charges at pixels where a display discharge is to occur. Pulses for a display discharge are alternately applied to the X and Y electrode lines to cause a display discharge at the pixels where the wall charges have been formed.

Abstract: A method for driving a plasma display panel having front and rear substrates opposed to and facing each other, X and Y electrode lines between the front and rear substrates parallel to each other, and address electrode lines orthogonal to the X and Y electrode lines, to define corresponding pixels at intersections, the method including applying scan pulses to respective groups of Y electrode lines with a time difference and simultaneously applying corresponding display data signals to respective address electrode lines to form wall charges at pixels where a display discharge is to occur, and alternately applying pulses for a display discharge to the X and Y electrode lines to cause a display discharge at the pixels where wall charges have been formed, wherein, as a time difference between (i) a first pulse of the pulses for display discharges, and (ii) pulses of the display data signals applied to pixels for a display discharge before application of the first pulse becomes larger, widths of the pulses of the

Abstract: A method of driving a plasma display panel having front and rear substrates opposed to and facing each other, X and Y electrode lines formed between the front and rear substrates to be parallel to each other, address electrode lines formed to be orthogonal to the X and Y electrode lines, to define corresponding pixels at interconnections, and the address electrode lines are cut into two parts at the middle portions thereof to then form first and second panels separately driven such that the minimum driving period includes a display discharge period, a reset period and an address period, a scan pulse is applied to at least one of the respective Y electrode lines during the address period and the corresponding display data signals are simultaneously applied to the respective address electrode lines to form wall charges at pixels to be displayed, pulses for a display discharge are alternately applied to the X and Y electrode lines to cause a display discharge at the pixels where the wall charges have been formed

Abstract: There are provided a plasma display panel (PDP) with improved energy recovery efficiency by which EMI generated at the PDP can be offset by an electrical field generated during a sustained discharge, the number of terminals connected to common electrodes can be reduced by minimizing the current flowing through the common electrodes without applying a voltage to the common electrodes during the sustained discharge, and the PDP can be tiled by minimizing the non-luminous area of the PDP, and a driving method thereof.

Abstract: A method for driving a plasma display panel having front and rear substrates opposed to and facing each other, X and Y electrode lines between the front and rear substrates, parallel to each other, and address electrode lines orthogonal to the X and Y electrode lines, defining corresponding pixels at intersections. A scan pulse is sequentially applied to the respective Y electrode lines at a predetermined time difference and the corresponding display data signals are simultaneously applied to the respective address electrode lines to produce wall charges at pixels where a discharge display discharge is to take place and pulses for a display discharge are alternately applied to the X and Y electrode lines to cause a display discharge at the pixels where the wall charges have been produced.

Abstract: A plasma display panel, one of flat panel display device, having improved electrical connections and the driving method thereof are disclosed. The plasma display panel and the driving method thereof have the advantage of diminishing the number of the high voltage driving ICs of high price by effectively constituting the connections of the discharge electrodes to diminish the number of the driving circuits. In addition, since the total scan electrodes are divided into two blocks, and are driven sequentially and alternately from a block to another, the influence of crosstalks by the leakage of the space charge may be diminished by disposing scan electrodes concurrently impressed with voltage signals to be relatively far apart.

Abstract: There is provided a method for driving a discharge device, especially a plasma display panel to improve a discharge process. The discharge device driving method prevents the increase of a discharge voltage and the decrease of an operating margin since space charge is efficiently controlled to lower the discharge voltage by adding a non-discharge signal for controlling space charge to a driving signal applied to at least one of two discharge electrodes, or to a third electrode, during a discharge sustaining period of the driving signals applied to both the discharge electrodes. In particular, the effects of the present invention is markedly excellent in the case of a pulse width of 1 &mgr;s or below. Discharge can be stably sustained by using a space-charge controlling non-discharge pulse of 200 ns˜1 &mgr;s wide, according to the panel structure, physical characteristics, and the driving method.

Abstract: In an address-while-display (AWD) driving method in which addressing and sustaining are simultaneously performed, a plasma display panel (PDP) is driven with an automatic power control function for reducing power consumption when there are lots of ON pixels over the entire PDP, that is, the brightness of the screen of the PDP is higher than a predetermined level. In the PDP driving method, in order to suppress power consumption for maintaining a bright state of the screen, discharge sustain pulses at respective sub-fields for implementing gray scale display of each frame are invalidated using erase pulses in a constant ratio for each sub-field, while all the video signals applied in the form of the AWD driving waveforms are continuously applied to the respective frame periods in which all the video signals are displayed without interruption, that is, irrespective of whether discharge is performed.

Abstract: There is provided a method for driving a discharge device, especially a plasma display panel to improve a discharge process. The discharge device driving method prevents the increase of a discharge voltage and the decrease of an operating margin since space charge is efficiently controlled to lower the discharge voltage by adding a non-discharge signal for controlling space charge to a driving signal applied to at least one of two discharge electrodes, or to a third electrode, during a discharge sustaining period of the driving signals applied to both the discharge electrodes. In particular, the effects of the present invention is markedly excellent in the case of a pulse width of 1 &mgr;s or below. Discharge can be stably sustained by using a space-charge controlling non-discharge pulse of 200 ns˜1 &mgr;s wide, according to the panel structure, physical characteristics, and the driving method.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for displaying a gray scale of a plasma display panel, by which generation of a pseudo contour upon expression of a gray scale with respect to a moving picture is prevented when a picture is displayed on a plasma display panel. The method can prevent generation of pseudo contours of dark lines (or bright lines) so that a temporal inconsistency appears as spatial inconsistency, at a portion of a moving picture in which gray scale changes are subtle, when expressing a gray scale by temporal duplication of light emission using the after-image effect of vision.

Abstract: A method for driving a plasma display panel in which a reset step of erasing remaining wall charges from a previous sub-field, an address step of forming wall charges in a selected pixel area, and a sustain discharge step of generating light from pixels where the wall charges are generated in the address step by applying alternating pulses to scan electrode lines and common electrode lines arranged parallel to each other, are sequentially performed in a unit sub-field, including allocating the scan electrode lines and the common electrode lines into groups, and applying alternating pulses to the scan electrode lines and common electrode lines in each group in the address step.

Abstract: A method for driving an AC type surface discharge structure plasma display panel according to an electrode wiring structure is provided. In the method for driving the AC plasma display panel, there is a phase difference of no more than 180° between the sustaining pulse applied to the Y electrode and the sustaining pulse applied to the X electrode in the three-electrode structure AC type plasma display panel in order to secure time for sustaining uniform wall charge and space charge characteristics. An address time slot constituted of a plurality of data pulses is set in a temporal margin space secured by collecting a plurality of sustaining pulses into a group. The data of each address time slot is assigned to time slots of a plurality of sub fields and is addressed.

Abstract: A driving method of a plasma display panel for gray-scale display using subfields, in each of which an address step, a sustaining discharge step, and a reset step are performed.

Abstract: A method for driving a plasma display panel having front and rear substrates opposed to and facing each other, X and Y electrode lines between the front and rear substrates parallel to each other and address electrode lines orthogonal to the X and Y electrode lines, to define corresponding pixels at intersections. A scan pulse is applied to the respective Y electrode lines with a predetermined time difference and the corresponding display data signals are simultaneously applied to the respective address electrode lines to form wall charges at pixels for a display discharge and pluses for a display discharge are alternately applied to the X and Y electrode lines to cause a display discharge at the pixels where the wall charges have been formed.

Abstract: A resetting method for erasing wall charges remaining around a first display electrode and a second display electrode in a second sub-field following after applying a final sustain discharge voltage between the first display electrode and the second display electrode in a first sub-field on a plasma display panel, including the steps of applying a first voltage higher than and having the opposite polarity to the final sustain discharge voltage between the first display electrode and the second display electrode, to cause a first discharge and accumulation of wall charges, and gradually decreasing the level of the first voltage until the first display electrode and the second display electrode are made to be at the same potential, to cause a second discharge weaker than and longer than the first discharge by the accumulated wall charges, and erasing the wall charges.

Abstract: A scan drive circuit of a plasma display panel in which first and second voltages are applied to the corresponding scan electrode lines during different reset and address periods in accordance with an input timing control signal and a third voltage for a sustain discharge is alternately applied to the corresponding scan electrode lines during a period other than the different reset and address periods, the scan drive circuit including a power switching circuit for outputting two voltages to be simultaneously used among the first, second and third voltages in accordance with the timing control signal, and line switching circuits connected to input ports of the corresponding scan electrode lines, for outputting one of the two voltages input from the power switching circuit to the corresponding scan electrode lines in accordance with the timing control signal.

Abstract: A method of driving a plasma display panel having front and rear substrates opposed to and facing each other, X and Y electrode lines formed between the front and rear substrates to be parallel to each other, address electrode lines formed to be orthogonal to the X and Y electrode lines, to define corresponding pixels at interconnections, and the address electrode lines are cut into two parts at the middle portions thereof to then form first and second panels separately driven such that the minimum driving period includes a display discharge period, a reset period and an address period, a scan pulse is applied to at least one of the respective Y electrode lines during the address period and the corresponding display data signals are simultaneously applied to the respective address electrode lines to form wall charges at pixels to be displayed, pulses for a display discharge are alternately applied to the X and Y electrode lines to cause a display discharge at the pixels where the wall charges have been formed

Abstract: A plasma display panel, one of flat panel display device, having improved electrical connections and the driving method thereof are disclosed. The plasma display panel and the driving method thereof have the advantage of diminishing the number of the high voltage driving ICs of high price by effectively constituting the connections of the discharge electrodes to diminish the number of the driving circuits. In addition, since the total scan electrodes are divided into two blocks, and are driven sequentially and alternately from a block to another, the influence of crosstalks by the leakage of the space charge may be diminished by disposing scan electrodes concurrently impressed with voltage signals to be relatively far apart.

Abstract: A plasma display panel, one of flat panel display device, having improved electrical connections and the driving method thereof are disclosed. The plasma display panel and the driving method thereof have the advantage of diminishing the number of the high voltage driving ICs of high price by effectively constituting the connections of the discharge electrodes to diminish the number of the driving circuits. In addition, since the total scan electrodes are divided into two blocks, and are driven sequentially and alternately from a block to another, the influence of crosstalks by the leakage of the space charge may be diminished by disposing scan electrodes concurrently impressed with voltage signals to be relatively far apart.

Abstract: A plasma display panel, one of flat panel display device, having improved electrical connections and the driving method thereof are disclosed. The plasma display panel and the driving method thereof have the advantage of diminishing the number of the high voltage driving ICs of high price by effectively constituting the connections of the discharge electrodes to diminish the number of the driving circuits. In addition, since the total scan electrodes are divided into two blocks, and are driven sequentially and alternately from a block to another, the influence of crosstalks by the leakage of the space charge may be diminished by disposing scan electrodes concurrently impressed with voltage signals to be relatively far apart.