Abstract: The present invention relates to a content control method and a content player using the same, wherein the content control method comprises the steps of: displaying a plurality of functions which can be executed on the contents, along with content images corresponding to a plurality of contents respectively; dragging one image corresponding to a first content out of the displayed content images and receiving a drop movement in a first region; and executing at least one of the functions corresponding to the first region upon the first content.

Abstract: A method of driving a plasma display apparatus including a scan electrode and a sustain electrode, that are positioned parallel to each other, are disclosed. The method includes supplying a scan signal to the scan electrode during an address period of a first subfield among a plurality of subfields of a frame, supplying a reset signal to the scan electrode during a reset period of a second subfield immediately following the first subfield, supplying a first signal between the scan signal and the reset signal to the scan electrode, and supplying a second signal overlapping the first signal to the sustain electrode. A pulse width of the second signal is smaller than a pulse width of the first signal.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a content control method and a content player using the same, wherein the content control method comprises the steps of: displaying a plurality of functions which can be executed on the contents, along with content images corresponding to a plurality of contents respectively; dragging one image corresponding to a first content out of the displayed content images and receiving a drop movement in a first region; and executing at least one of the functions corresponding to the first region upon the first content.

Abstract: A plasma display apparatus and a method of driving the same are disclosed. The plasma display apparatus includes a plasma display panel including scan electrodes and sustain electrodes, a sensor unit for detecting a temperature or a peripheral temperature of the panel, and a scan driver for supplying reset signals to the scan electrodes in a reset period of at least one subfield among a plurality of subfields at a predetermined reference temperature so that a first period in which a lowest voltage of the reset signal is supplied is different from a supply period of a lowest voltage when the temperature or the peripheral temperature of the PDP deviates the predetermined reference temperature.

Abstract: A plasma display apparatus and a driving method thereof are provided. The plasma display apparatus and a driving method thereof represent an image by a combination of a plurality of subfields, supply a first pulse to the first electrode in a negative polarity direction before a reset period for initializing in at least one of the plurality of subfields, supply a second pulse to the second electrode in an opposite polarity direction of the first pulse while the first pulse is supplied to the first electrode, and do not supply a sustain pulse to at least one of the first electrode and the second electrode in a sustain period after the reset period.

Abstract: A plasma display apparatus and a method of driving the same are disclosed. The plasma display apparatus includes a plurality of scan electrodes, a plurality of data electrodes, a scan driver and a data driver. The scan driver scans the plurality of scan electrodes during an address period in one scanning type of a plurality of scanning types having different scanning orders. Further, the scan driver supplies a scan signal, of which the duration of a voltage rising period is different from the duration of a voltage falling period, to the scan electrodes when scanning the scan electrodes. The data driver supplies a data signal to the data electrodes depending on the scanning type selected from the plurality of scanning types.

Abstract: A plasma display panel according to the present invention includes a front panel including a first electrode, a second electrode, and an upper dielectric layer covering the first and second electrodes, and a rear panel including a lower dielectric layer covering a third electrode. An interval between the first electrode and the second electrode ranges from 0.4 to 0.95 times an interval between the upper dielectric layer and the lower dielectric layer.

Abstract: A method of driving a plasma display apparatus is disclosed. The method includes supplying a data signal to a discharge cell during a-th to b-th subfields, arranged in increasing order of gray level weight, of an n-th frame, and supplying a data signal to the discharge cell during a (b+1)-th subfield of an (n+1)-th frame. The number of sustain signals assigned in the a-th to b-th subfields of the n-th frame is less than the number of sustain signals assigned in the (b+1)-th subfield of the (n+1)-th frame. The number of sustain signals assigned in a (b+1)-th subfield of the n-th frame is less than the number of sustain signals assigned in the (b+1)-th subfield of the (n+1)-th frame.

Abstract: A plasma display apparatus and a method of driving the same are provided. The plasma display apparatus comprises a plasma display panel, a scan driver, and a data driver. The plasma display panel comprises a scan electrode, a sustain electrode, a first address electrode, and a second address electrode. The scan driver supplies a pulse to the scan electrode between a reset period and an address period. The data driver supplies a data pulse to the first address electrode and the second address electrode at different points of time.

Abstract: A plasma display apparatus is disclosed. The plasma display apparatus includes a plasma display panel, on which an image is displayed, and a filter positioned in front of the plasma display panel. A discharge gas filled in the plasma display panel contains xenon (Xe) equal to or more than 10% based on total weight of the discharge gas. The filter includes a base portion, and a pattern portion formed on the base portion, having a color darker than a color of the base portion.

Abstract: A plasma display panel and a plasma display apparatus including the same are provided. The plasma display panel includes a front substrate on which a scan electrode and a sustain electrode are positioned substantially parallel to each other, a rear substrate on which an address electrode is positioned to cross the scan electrode and the sustain electrode, and a discharge gas filled in a space between the front substrate and the rear substrate. The scan electrode and the sustain electrode are ITO-less electrodes. The discharge gas contains a nitrogen gas (N2).

Abstract: A plasma display apparatus is disclosed. The plasma display apparatus includes a plasma display panel and a filter positioned in front of the plasma display panel. The filter includes a near infrared ray shielding layer that absorbs or reflects near infrared rays. The plasma display panel includes a front substrate, a rear substrate, and a barrier rib, formed between the front and rear substrates, partitioning a discharge cell. An exhaust unit is omitted in the rear substrate. The discharge cell is filled with a discharge gas containing xenon (Xe) equal to or more than 10% based on total weight of the discharge gas.

Abstract: A plasma display apparatus is provided. The plasma display apparatus includes a data drive IC for supplying a data signal corresponding to an image signal to the address electrode through an output terminal formed at one side and the other side of the data driver IC, which oppose to each other, during the supply of the scan signal to an electrode of the plasma display panel.

Abstract: A method of driving a plasma display apparatus including a scan electrode and a sustain electrode, that are positioned parallel to each other, are disclosed. The method includes supplying a scan signal to the scan electrode during an address period of a first subfield among a plurality of subfields of a frame, supplying a reset signal to the scan electrode during a reset period of a second subfield immediately following the first subfield, supplying a first signal between the scan signal and the reset signal to the scan electrode, and supplying a second signal overlapping the first signal to the sustain electrode. A pulse width of the second signal is smaller than a pulse width of the first signal.

Abstract: A plasma display apparatus and a method of driving the same are disclosed. The plasma display apparatus includes a plasma display panel including scan electrodes and sustain electrodes, a sensor unit for detecting a temperature or a peripheral temperature of the panel, and a scan driver for supplying reset signals to the scan electrodes in a reset period of at least one subfield among a plurality of subfields at a predetermined reference temperature so that a first period in which a lowest voltage of the reset signal is supplied is different from a supply period of a lowest voltage when the temperature or the peripheral temperature of the PDP deviates the predetermined reference temperature.

Abstract: A plasma display apparatus and a method of driving the same are disclosed. The plasma display apparatus includes a plasma display panel including scan and sustain electrodes, a scan driver, and a sustain driver. The scan driver supplies a first reset signal, of which a lowest voltage is a first voltage, to the scan electrode during reset periods of a plurality of subfields and supplies a scan signal, of which a lowest voltage is a third voltage lower than the first voltage, to the scan electrode during address periods. The sustain driver supplies a first sustain bias voltage to the sustain electrode during the reset periods and supplies a second sustain bias voltage higher than the first sustain bias voltage to the sustain electrode during the address periods.

Abstract: A plasma display apparatus and a method of driving the same are disclosed. The plasma display apparatus includes a plasma display panel including scan electrodes and sustain electrodes, and a scan driver that supplies reset signals to the scan electrodes in reset periods of a plurality of subfields so that a period in which a lowest voltage of the reset signal is supplied varies with a reset period of at least one subfield.

Abstract: Provided is a plasma display panel comprising first and second electrodes, a first barrier rib, and a second barrier rib. The first and second electrodes are formed on an upper substrate. The first barrier rib is formed over a lower substrate to be disposed under the first electrode. The second barrier rib is formed over the lower substrate to be disposed under the second electrode. A barrier rib center point between the first and second barrier ribs is different from an electrode center point between the first and second electrodes.

Abstract: A plasma display panel is provided. The plasma display panel includes a front substrate, a rear substrate and a barrier rib, the barrier rib includes a first portion of the barrier rib where the height of the barrier rib gradually changes and a second portion of the barrier rib where the height of the barrier rib remains substantially constant.

Abstract: Disclosed are a plasma display apparatus. The plasma display apparatus, comprising: a plasma display panel comprising a plurality of electrodes; and a driver supplying a driving signal to a predetermined electrode of the plurality of electrodes, wherein the plasma display panel comprises a front substrate on which first and second electrodes are formed in parallel to each other, a rear substrate aligned in opposite to the front substrate and forming a third electrode where the first and second electrodes intersect, and a barrier rib partitioning the discharge cell between the front and rear substrates, and wherein a exhaust unit is omitted from the rear substrate, and the driver supplies a first reset signal to the first electrode in a reset period for initializing a first subfield and supplies a second reset signal to the first electrode in the reset period of a second subfield, a magnitude of a voltage of the second reset signal is different from that of first subfield.