Abstract: A method for driving a plasma display panel, including a plurality of display electrode pairs and a plurality of address electrodes, and which includes at least an address period and a sustain discharge period. In the address period, performing address processing, between the address electrodes and a display electrode configured as either a set of odd or even numbered display electrodes, sequentially to all of one of the sets of display electrode pairs, and thereafter address processing, between the address electrodes and a display electrode configured as the other set of display electrode pairs, sequentially to all of the other set of display electrode pairs. In the sustain discharge period, supplying at least one first sustain discharge pulse to the one set of display electrode pairs, and supplying at least one second sustain discharge pulse to the other set of display electrode pairs.

Abstract: A Plasma Display Apparatus having common electrodes and address electrodes extending in a first direction and scan electrodes extending in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, and each address electrode is aligned with a respective common electrode. A display cell is formed at a crossing portion of each common electrode and address electrode pair and each scan electrode. A lit state or an unlit state of each display cell is selected by applying, in individual succession, scan pulses to scan electrodes and selectively applying address pulses to the address electrodes. A sustain discharge is produced in each display cell selected to be lit by applying sustain pulses between the common electrodes and the scan electrodes.

Abstract: A PDP apparatus of good display quality has been disclosed, wherein plural common electrodes and plural scan electrodes that extend in the directions perpendicular to each other are formed on a first substrate and plural address electrodes that respectively make a pair with the plural common electrodes and extend in the same direction of that thereof are formed on a second substrate. A display cell is formed at the crossing portion of each pair of the common electrode and the address electrode and each scan electrode, the lit state or the unlit state of each display cell is selected by applying a scan pulse sequentially to the scan electrode and applying an address pulse selectively to the address electrode in synchronization with the application of the scan pulse, and a sustain pulse is applied to the plural common electrodes and the plural scan electrodes.

Abstract: An electrode drive circuit performs interlaced scanning, ensuring that the phases of the sustaining pulse in odd-numbered lines and even-numbered lines among L1 to L8 between surface discharge electrodes are the reverse of each other. With this, when either odd-numbered lines or even-numbered lines are displayed, the voltages applied between the electrodes of the undisplayed lines are at 0, eliminating the necessity for partitioning walls on the surface discharge electrodes. In surface discharge electrodes, X electrodes are provided on the two sides of a Y electrode and the area between the Y electrode and the X electrode on one side is assigned a display line at an odd-numbered frame, and the area between the Y electrode and the X electrode on the other side is assigned a display line in an even-numbered frame.

Abstract: Method for driving a plasma display panel. At least one first discharge sustaining pulse is applied to a first pair of display electrodes, and at least one second discharge sustaining pulse applied to an adjacent pair of display electrodes. The first and second discharge sustaining pulses are applied such that they are in the same phase as one another and/or such that a current in the first pair of display electrodes flows in the opposite direction from a current in the adjacent pair of display electrodes.

Abstract: A plasma display panel comprising plural kinds of phosphors, each of which emits a light having a different kind of color, separators which separate the plural kinds of phosphors, and discharge cells having sustain electrode pairs which create discharges producing the light emissions from the phosphors. In the plasma display panel, sustain discharge currents through the sustain electrode pairs in the discharge cells are set at different values according to respective brightness of the lights emitted from the plural kinds of phosphors.

Abstract: A plasma display panel having a high power efficiency by reducing parasitic capacitances comprises first and second substrates disposed facing each other, a plurality of address lines formed on the first substrate and extending along a first direction and a plurality of X and Y electrodes formed on the second substrate and extending along a second direction crossing the first direction. A first dielectric layer covers the X and Y electrodes formed on the second substrate, the first dielectric layer having a dielectric constant higher than a dielectric constant of the second substrate, and a trench formed at least through the first dielectric layer in an area between two adjacent X and Y electrodes, the trench extending along the second direction.

Abstract: An electrode drive circuit performs interlaced scanning, ensuring that the phases of the sustaining pulse in odd-numbered lines and even-numbered lines among L1 to L8 between surface discharge electrodes are the reverse of each other. With this, when either odd-numbered lines or even-numbered lines are displayed, the voltages applied between the electrodes of the undisplayed lines are at 0, eliminating the necessity for partitioning walls on the surface discharge electrodes. In surface discharge electrodes, X electrodes are provided on the two sides of a Y electrode and the area between the Y electrode and the X electrode on one side is assigned a display line at an odd-numbered frame, and the area between the Y electrode and the X electrode on the other side is assigned a display line in an even-numbered frame.

Abstract: A PDP apparatus of good display quality has been disclosed, wherein plural common electrodes and plural scan electrodes that extend in the directions perpendicular to each other are formed on a first substrate and plural address electrodes that respectively make a pair with the plural common electrodes and extend in the same direction of that thereof are formed on a second substrate. A display cell is formed at the crossing portion of each pair of the common electrode and the address electrode and each scan electrode, the lit state or the unlit state of each display cell is selected by applying a scan pulse sequentially to the scan electrode and applying an address pulse selectively to the address electrode in synchronization with the application of the scan pulse, and a sustain pulse is applied to the plural common electrodes and the plural scan electrodes.

Abstract: A method for driving a plasma display panel applies, within a subfield among the n subfields, a narrow-width pulse having a pulse width equal to or less than 2 &mgr;s to first electrodes in order to cause an erase discharge while terminating a discharge caused between the first and second electrodes, and applies a voltage pulse to third electrodes so that the voltage pulse falls at the same time as the narrow-width pulse falls.

Abstract: A plasma display panel comprising plural kinds of phosphors, each of which emits a light having a respective, different kind of color, separators which separate the plural kinds of phosphors and discharge cells having sustain electrode pairs which create discharges producing the light emissions from the phosphors. In the plasma display pane, sustain discharge currents through the sustain electrode pairs in the discharge cells are set respective, different values according to respective brightnesses of the lights emitted from the plural kinds of phosphors.

Abstract: An electrode drive circuit performs interlaced scanning, ensuring that the phases of the sustaining pulse in odd-numbered lines and even-numbered lines among L1 to L8 between surface discharge electrodes are the reverse of each other. With this, when either odd-numbered lines or even-numbered lines are displayed, the voltages applied between the electrodes of the undisplayed lines are at 0, eliminating the necessity for partitioning walls on the surface discharge electrodes. In surface discharge electrodes, X electrodes are provided on the two sides of a Y electrode and the area between the Y electrode and the X electrode on one side is assigned a display line at an odd-numbered frame, and the area between the Y electrode and the X electrode on the other side is assigned a display line in an even-numbered frame.

Abstract: An electrode drive circuit performs interlaced scanning, ensuring that the phases of the sustaining pulse in odd-numbered lines and even-numbered lines among L1 to L8 between surface discharge electrodes are the reverse of each other. With this, when either odd-numbered lines or even-numbered lines are displayed, the voltages applied between the electrodes of the undisplayed lines are at 0, eliminating the necessity for partitioning walls on the surface discharge electrodes. In surface discharge electrodes, X electrodes are provided on the two sides of a Y electrode and the area between the Y electrode and the X electrode on one side is assigned a display line at an odd-numbered frame, and the area between the Y electrode and the X electrode on the other side is assigned a display line in an even-numbered frame.

Abstract: A plasma display panel comprising plural kinds of phosphors, each of which emits a light having a different kind of color, separators which separate the plural kinds of phosphors and discharge cells having sustain electrode pairs which create discharges to create the light emissions from the phosphors. In the plasma display panel, a sustain discharge current through each sustain electrode pair in the discharge cells is set a different value according to a brightness of each light emitted from the plural kinds of phosphors.

Abstract: An electrode drive circuit performs interlaced scanning, ensuring that the phases of the sustaining pulse in odd-numbered lines and even-numbered lines among L1 to L8 between surface discharge electrodes are the reverse of each other. With this, when either odd-numbered lines or even-numbered lines are displayed, the voltages applied between the electrodes of the undisplayed lines are at 0, eliminating the necessity for partitioning walls on the surface discharge electrodes. In surface discharge electrodes, X electrodes are provided on the two sides of a Y electrode and the area between the Y electrode and the X electrode on one side is assigned a display line at an odd-numbered frame, and the area between the Y electrode and the X electrode on the other side is assigned a display line in an even-numbered frame.

Abstract: A display apparatus permitting high resolution and a large number of gray-scale levels and causing indiscernible flicker has been disclosed. One frame is divided into or composed of j subframes, and light is produced according to a luminance level predetermined subframe by subframe in order to express intermediate gray-scale of a picture. Emphasis is put on the fact that display to be performed during each subframe within one frame can be controlled independently. An interlaced-scanning display is carried out during k subframes associated with low-order weighted bits out of j subframes, and a noninterlaced-scanning display is carried out during the other j-k subframes associated with high-order weighted bits. The ratio of an addressing scan time to a subframe associated with a small weight is large, and the ratio of an addressing scan time to a whole frame is very large. If the addressing scan time can be reduced as mentioned above, a great effect would be exerted.

Abstract: A triple-electrode planar display capable of achieving further power saving has been disclosed. A drive unit is dedicated to a planar display having a display panel in which cells being arranged in the form of a matrix and having a memory function and discharge glow function are formed, in which one of each pair of electrodes on the same substrate which are responsible for discharge glow is a common electrode connected in common. The drive unit includes a common electrode drive circuit for applying an alternating voltage to the common electrode, and a power save circuit that when the common electrode is changed from a high potential to a low potential, restores and accumulates power applied to the common electrode, and that when the common electrode is changed from the high potential to the low potential, applies accumulated power to the common electrode.

Abstract: A flat panel display has a low withstand voltage and performs high speed line sequential scanning and recovers power. An AC type panel display has electrodes arranged in a matrix form, a push-pull type driver circuit, having first and second transistors, provided for each pair of plural pairs, of power supply lines connected to a driver circuit for driving a plurality of display electrodes to be scanned and a power supply which supplies a defined voltage to one of the respective power supply lines of each pair connected to the corresponding driver circuit, and a leakage control switch which leaks the defined voltage applied to the power supply line.

Abstract: A method of actuating a PDP device uses an actuating pulse signal which comprises an erasing mode for erasing data displayed on a display panel, a writing mode for writing new data on the panel and a sustaining mode for sustaining a state of displaying the data. The data to be displayed are input by an input signal which is not synchronized with the actuating pulse signal. At and before the time of changing the mode of the actuating pulse signal, at least one pulse is eliminated from the actuating pulse signal.

Abstract: A plasma display panel driving method and system in which a specified one of the panel cells is discharged at all times and electrons produced by the discharge serve as initial electrons for the other display cells, thereby to increase the writing response speed of the display cells and ensure achievement of writing operation.