Abstract: A plasma display is disclosed. The display includes driver circuitry which drives the display so that a low level luminance can be generated in a subfield despite high luminance efficient pixels.

Abstract: A plasma display apparatus is disclosed. The plasma display apparatus includes a plasma display panel including a scan electrode, a sustain voltage supply unit supplying a sustain voltage to the scan electrode, a scan reference voltage supply unit supplying a scan reference voltage to the scan electrode, a scan reference voltage controller that is connected between the scan reference voltage supply unit and the scan electrode and includes a resistor changing the scan reference voltage into a reset signal with a predetermined slope, a voltage storing unit that is connected between the sustain voltage supply unit and the scan reference voltage supply unit and stores the scan reference voltage, and a driving signal output unit that controls an output of a voltage supplied to the scan electrode using a single switch.

Abstract: A plasma display apparatus having a connecting structure between a base chassis and a driving circuit to reduce EMI emission is provided. The plasma display apparatus includes a panel, a driving circuit, and a base chassis which is connected to the driving circuit through a conductive connecting element and a non-conductive connecting element.

Abstract: A plasma display apparatus and a method for producing a plasma display panel are provided. The plasma display apparatus includes a panel which includes an upper panel coated with a functional material, and a lower panel located opposite a surface of the upper panel coated with the functional material, a driving circuit which drives the panel, and a base chassis on which the driving circuit is mounted.

Abstract: The driving method of the plasma display device has a plurality of combination sets for display that include a different number of combinations. Respective spatial differentiations of a red image signal, a green image signal, and a blue image signal are calculated. For an image signal of a large spatial differentiation, a combination set for display is used where the number of combinations is smaller than that in the combination set for display used for an image signal of a small spatial differentiation.

Abstract: A plasma display device includes a plasma display panel including scan electrodes, a driver circuit portion including a connector, the driver circuit portion being configured to drive the plasma display panel, and a scan IC portion electrically connecting the plasma display panel to the driver circuit portion, the scan IC portion including a rigid substrate inserted in the connector, a scan IC on the rigid substrate, the scan IC being configured to receive an input signal and a reference potential from the driver circuit portion, and a flexible substrate electrically connected between the rigid substrate and the plasma display panel, the flexible substrate being configured to transmit an output signal from the scan IC to the scan electrodes.

Abstract: A sealing method is applicable to a cell matrix equipped with a plurality of cells spatially divided by a partition for sealing dispersion liquid containing hydrophobic dispersion medium and electrophoretic particles dispersed therein in the cells. The sealing method includes: supplying the dispersion liquid in the cells through an opening section of a space defined by the partition; and forming a sealing layer at an exposed portion of the dispersion liquid in the opening section, using a polymer reaction at an interface with water.

Abstract: There is provided a drive circuit of a display device using a capacitive load which includes a clamp circuit connected to a power source potential and clamping a potential of the capacitive load to the power source potential such that an electric power is supplied to the capacitive load in a temporally dispersed manner. For example, the clamp circuit includes a plurality of switches parallelly connected between the capacitive load and the power source potential, the plurality of switches being turned on at different times.

Abstract: There is provided a technique for discharge stabilization of a plasma display panel by forming magnesium oxide with a large diameter and adjusting residual amounts of impurities contained in the magnesium oxide. That is, discharge stabilization material particle, which is coated on a protective-film layer of protecting electrodes and supplies sufficient amount of priming particles into a discharge gap, is focused. By setting each impurity concentration in the magnesium oxide used as the discharge stabilization material particle to 20 ppm or lower, discharge time lag is suppressed.

Abstract: A plasma display device including a drive circuit board disposed on a chassis member holding a plasma display panel and coupled to an electrode terminal portion of a display electrode via a flexible wiring board so as to apply a driving voltage to a display electrode, and a plurality of data drivers disposed in the lower end portion that is close contact with electrode terminal portion of a data electrode on the chassis member and connected to the electrode terminal portion via flexible wiring board so as to apply a driving voltage to the data electrode. The plasma display panel is configured by forming a base film on the dielectric layer covering the display electrode and attaching a plurality of crystal particles made of metal oxide to the base film so as to be distributed over an entire surface.

Abstract: A display panel drive device of reduced area occupied by circuit elements. The display panel drive device includes an output stage circuit having a low side selector circuit constituted by connecting in series inverters and a buffer circuit, n-channel IGBTs, a Zener diode and resistance respectively connected between the gate and emitter of the IGBT, a buffer circuit, and a high side selector circuit including an inverter. The buffer circuit includes a high side Pch-MOS operated by a logic signal from the high side selector circuit and a low side Nch-MOS operated by a logic signal of the low side selector circuit.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a plasma display panel driving method and apparatus for reducing subfield position variation between display frames by arranging an idle period among the subfields. The subfields included in the frame may be divided into at least two subfield groups with reference to a predetermined weight value at which flicker may occur. An idle period, which is substantially a residual time of the frame excluding the subfields, may be arranged between two divided subfield groups. Accordingly, flicker caused by the variation of the number of subfields between frames can be prevented because of the reduced positional variation of the subfields.

Abstract: A device for controlling a matrix screen includes a scanning circuit. The scanning circuit includes a row control block which successively selects each row, and a column control block which, for each selected row, selects or deselects a set of columns of the screen with the aid of column selection or deselection signals. The temporal evolution of each column selection signal and of each column deselection signal includes a first and a second part separated by an intermediate porch. The column control block, for each column of the screen, determines if the corresponding column has to be selected or deselected, determines the value of the capacitance seen by the column termed the column-capacitance, and adjusts temporal evolution characteristics of the selection or deselection signal of at least one column to be selected or deselected as a function of the determined value of its column-capacitance.

Abstract: The driving method of the plasma display device has a plurality of combination sets for display that include a different number of combinations. The signal levels of a red image signal, a green image signal, and a blue image signal are compared with each other. For an image signal of a color that has a relatively low signal level, a combination set for display is used where the number of combinations is smaller than that in the combination set for display used for an image signal of a color that has a relatively high signal level. When the power consumption of a data electrode driving circuit is large, a combination set for display is used where the number of combinations is smaller than that in a combination set for display used for an image signal when the power consumption of the data electrode driving circuit is small.

Abstract: There is provided a plasma display apparatus and a driving method thereof, and more particularly, to a plasma display apparatus which drives an electrodes and a driving method thereof. The plasma display apparatus includes a plasma display panel including an electrodes; a first voltage supply unit supplying a first voltage to the electrodes at a setup period; and a setup/scan operation unit supplying a ramp-up pulse to the electrodes at the setup period with one voltage source and supplying a second voltage to the electrodes at an address period with the one voltage source.

Abstract: A plasma display apparatus is disclosed. The plasma display apparatus includes a plasma display panel and a driver. The plasma display panel includes a front substrate on which a plurality of scan electrodes and a plurality of sustain electrode are positioned substantially parallel to each other, a rear substrate on which a plurality of address electrodes are positioned to intersect the scan electrodes and the sustain electrodes, and a phosphor layer that is positioned between the front substrate and the rear substrate and includes a phosphor material and MgO material. The driver supplies scan signals to the plurality of scan electrodes at different times of an address period of a subfield in an active area.

Abstract: A display panel and a driving method thereof are disclosed. The display panel comprises a plurality of pixel rows, a plurality of data lines and a plurality of gate lines. Each of the pixel rows includes pairs of first and second pixels adjacent to each other. The data lines are positioned between the first and the second pixels, respectively. The gate lines include first, second, third and fourth gate lines arranged in an alternating manner. The method comprises the following steps: turning on the gate lines in a sequence of first, second, fourth and third gate lines; and transmitting the data signal to the pixels through the data lines. The panel is applicable to an LCD panel and an LCD apparatus.

Abstract: A method of driving a PDP apparatus to sufficiently suppress the background light emission and improve the dark room contrast, in which first electrodes and second electrodes are arranged adjacently by turns, a first display line is formed between one side of the second electrode and the first electrode adjacent thereto, a second display line is formed between the other side of the second electrode and the first electrode adjacent thereto, and the interlaced display that displays the first display line and the second display line alternately in different fields is performed, has been disclosed, wherein the reset voltage that directly relates to the intensity of the background light emission is varied according to the number of times of sustain discharges, the display conditions, and so on, in each subfield and the reset discharge is caused to occur with the minimum voltage in each subfield.

Abstract: A driving device for a plasma display panel. The driving device generates rising and falling ramp signals having a respective constant slope regardless of a change in operating temperature. An optimal discharge voltage is maintained at high and low temperatures by the rising and falling ramp signals having a respective constant slope to secure an operation margin, thereby preventing a discharge degradation such as an incorrect discharge from occurring. Accordingly, this can cause the reliability of a plasma display device including the driving device to be enhanced.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a plasma display apparatus and driving method thereof. The plasma display apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises a plasma display panel comprising a scan electrode and a sustain electrode, and a driver that controls one or more of sustain pulses supplied to the scan electrode and one or more of sustain pulses supplied to the sustain electrode to be overlapped with each other.

Abstract: In the method of driving a plasma display panel according to the present invention, the address electrodes are divided into a plurality of electrode groups, and the an application time point of data pulses applied to one or more of the address electrode groups in the address period is different from that of a scan pulse applied to the scan electrode in all the sub-fields of the frame. In addition, the width of the scan pulse applied during an address period of a predetermined number of the sub-fields is greater than the width of scan pulses applied during the address period of the remaining sub-fields.

Abstract: Field emitter arrays with split gates and methods for operating the same. A field emitter array may include one or more pairs of split gates, each connected to a corresponding voltage source, the split gates forming at least one gate hole for at least one emitter tip. Voltages, for example, AC voltages V1 and V2 may be applied to the split gates to perform one- or two-dimensional scanning or tilting depending on a ratio of V1 and V2.

Abstract: The invention reduces power consumption, reduces EMI, and produces a stable sustain discharge. The sustain pulse generating circuit includes a power recovery circuit, clamping circuit, and auxiliary circuit. The power recovery circuit has a recovery inductor for LC resonance and a recovery capacitor for power recovery, recovers power stored in the capacitive load of the display electrode pairs to the recovery capacitor by LC resonance, and reuses the recovered power to drive the display electrode pairs. A clamping circuit clamps the display electrode pairs to the supply potential and the ground potential. An auxiliary circuit has an auxiliary capacitor connected in series with the recovery capacitor, and an auxiliary inductor that is used for LC resonance with the auxiliary capacitor, and increases the current flowing to the recovery inductor at the sustain pulse rise and fall to greater than the current that flows only as a result of the LC resonance of the recovery inductor and the capacitive load.

Abstract: This projector comprises a source lamp, a lamp storage portion, storing the source lamp therein, including an air discharge opening for discharging internal air from the lamp storage portion and a netlike member so arranged as to cover the outer side of the air discharge opening of the lamp storage portion for inhibiting fragments of the source lamp from being discharged outward from the lamp storage portion through the air discharge opening when the source lamp is broken. The lamp storage portion further includes a protrusion provided on the outer side surface close to the air discharge opening to protrude in a direction intersecting with the extensional direction of the netlike member with a function of inhibiting the fragments of the source lamp from passing through a clearance between the lamp storage portion and the netlike member.

Abstract: A plasma display device that inexpensively improves uniformity of luminance in a vertical direction of a PDP. The plasma display device includes: a plasma display panel (PDP) having an X electrode and Y electrode that are disposed parallel to each other while intersecting an address electrode at a discharge cell; a Y-board assembly that controls the Y electrode of the PDP; a Y-buffer-board assembly including a scan integrated circuit (IC) connected to the Y-board assembly to apply a scan voltage waveform and a sustain voltage waveform to the Y electrode; and a current supply element included in the Y-buffer-board assembly to supply a ground voltage to the Y-board assembly and to prevent overshooting of the sustain voltage waveform.

Abstract: A switching control circuit for a scan driving unit or a sustain driving unit of a plasma display panel driving device is disclosed. The switching control circuit includes a level shift circuit configured to generate a level-shifted signal by level shifting a control signal to a level referenced to a negative reference voltage, where the control signal was referenced to a ground voltage. The switching control circuit also includes a driver IC configured to amplify the level-shifted signal, and a switching circuit configured to perform a switching operation corresponding to the output signal.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a plasma display panel. The plasma display panel of the present invention is divided into three or more regions. Address electrodes located in each region are classified into electrode groups. Each of the electrode groups is supplied with a driving signal from an additional data driver. Therefore, high speed driving is made possible during the address period and voltage drop in the electrodes can be compensated. Furthermore, since a discharge period can be relatively extended, the display quality can be improved.

Abstract: A power module for energy recovery and sustain of a plasma display panel is disclosed. The power module includes a first high-voltage integrated circuit which is of a single type, a first switching element for receiving an output from the first high-voltage integrated circuit, and performing a switching operation in response to the output received from the first high-voltage integrated circuit, a first diode connected to one terminal of the first switching element, a second high-voltage integrated circuit which is of a single type, and is arranged symmetrically with the first high-voltage integrated circuit, a second switching element for receiving an output from the second high-voltage integrated circuit, and performing a switching operation in response to the output received from the second high-voltage integrated circuit, and a second diode connected to one terminal of the second switching element.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for reducing driver energy consumption of drivers of a display device each supplied by an input codeword as e.g. for data drivers of a plasma display panel supplied by sequences of subfield data bits in form of a codeword comprising a predetermined number of bits are recommended, wherein the apparatus comprises a driver transition energy limitation circuit for toggling bits of the input codeword applied to the driver transition energy limitation circuit and providing a codeword reducing the driver energy consumption. A toggle map, which is generated from a combination of a transition map determining a bit in the input codeword if toggled reduces energy consumption and a flag map determining a number of least significant bits exceeding a cell energy limit value, is applied to an input codeword for the driver to toggle bits of said input codeword for reducing driver energy consumption without a perceivable image quality degradation.

Abstract: A plasma display panel driving device includes an electrode driving unit for generating a drive pulse to be applied to an electrode of a plasma display panel. The electrode driving unit has a plurality of switches. At least one of the plurality of switches is a switch device including a dual-gate semiconductor device. The dual-gate semiconductor device 10 has a semiconductor multilayer 13 formed on a substrate 11 and made of a nitride semiconductor or a silicon carbide semiconductor, a source electrode 16 and a drain electrode 17 formed and spaced apart from each other on the semiconductor multilayer 13, and a first gate electrode 18A and a second gate electrode 18B formed between the source electrode 16 and the drain electrode 17, successively from the source electrode 16 side.

Abstract: A display driving method drives a display to make a gradation display on a screen of the display depending on a length of a light emission time in each of sub fields forming 1 field, where 1 field is a time in which an image is displayed, N sub fields SF1 through SFN form 1 field, and each sub field includes an address display-time in which a wall charge is formed with respect to all pixels which are to emit light within the sub field and a sustain time which is equal to the light emission time and determines a luminance level. The display driving method includes the steps of setting the sustain times of each of the sub fields approximately constant within 1 field, and displaying image data on the display using N+1 gradation levels from a luminance level 0 to a luminance level N.

Abstract: A plasma display device with touch sensing function includes a display panel having a plurality of first and second electrodes, and third electrodes crossing the first and second electrodes, and first, second and third drivers adapted to drive the first, second and third electrodes in a plurality of subfields including a sensing subfield having a first period and a second period. During the first period, the first driver is adapted to apply a first voltage higher than a reference voltage to the first electrodes, the second driver is adapted to time sequentially apply a second voltage lower than the first voltage to the second electrodes. During the second period, the first driver is adapted to apply a fourth voltage lower than the first voltage to the first electrodes, and the third driver is adapted to time sequentially apply a third voltage higher than the reference voltage to the third electrodes.

Abstract: A plasma display device has a panel having a plurality of scan electrodes, and a drive circuit having a circuit board including a scan IC for applying scan pulses to the scan electrodes. The drive circuit divides a group of odd-numbered scan electrodes and a group of even-numbered scan electrodes individually. In the circuit board having the scan IC, a surface or layer to be mounted with a scan IC for applying scan pulses to the group of odd-numbered scan electrodes is different from a surface or layer to be mounted with a scan IC for applying scan pulses to the group of even-numbered scan electrodes.

Abstract: A driving method of a plasma display device according to an exemplary embodiment groups a plurality of address electrodes extending in a first direction into a plurality of groups, and logically divides each of the groups into a plurality of sub-groups. During a first period, a first pulse is sequentially applied to the plurality of groups, and a second pulse is sequentially applied to the plurality of sub-groups included in at least one of the plurality of groups during a second period following the first period. The first and second periods are address periods for sensing in a second direction crossing the first direction.

Abstract: In the method for driving a plasma display device, the plasma display panel are applied with voltage through the following process. In the first address period where an address discharge is generated on the scan electrodes that belong to the first scan electrode group, the third switching element is turned OFF so as to give a different value of reference voltage between the first and the second scan electrode driving sections. In the second address period where an address discharge is generated on the scan electrodes that belong to the second scan electrode group, the third switching element is turned ON so as to give a same value of reference voltage between the first and the second scan electrode driving sections. In the sustain period where sustain pulses are applied to a plurality of scan electrodes to generate a sustain discharge in the discharge cells, the third switching element is turned ON.

Abstract: A plasma display apparatus includes a display panel in which display cells are constituted at least by a set of electrodes including first electrodes extending in a first direction, second electrodes extending in the first direction, and third electrodes extending in a second direction substantially perpendicular to the first direction, a first drive circuit configured to drive the first electrodes, a second drive circuit configured to drive the second electrodes, a third drive circuit configured to drive the third electrodes in conjunction with successive scanning of the first electrodes, and a power-supply circuit configured to generate a DC voltage based on an AC voltage and to supply the DC voltage to the first drive circuit and the second drive circuit, wherein the power-supply circuit and a given drive circuit that is one of the first drive circuit and the second drive circuit are implemented on a single print circuit board.

Abstract: A plasma display device including a first electrode, a second electrode, and a third electrode crossing the first electrode and the second electrode is disclosed. A plurality of first sustain pulses are applied to the first electrode and a plurality of second sustain pulses are applied to the second electrode during a sustain period of a first subfield. A voltage at the first electrode gradually decreases from a third voltage to a fourth voltage after the voltage at the first electrode gradually increases from a first voltage to a second voltage, during a sub-reset period of a second subfield being consecutive to the first subfield. The plurality of second sustain pulses includes a first group and a second group, the second group includes the last one of the second sustain pulses, and a second sustain pulse of the second group has a different characteristic (e.g., pulse width) from a second sustain pulse of the first group.

Abstract: A plasma display apparatus is disclosed. The plasma display apparatus includes a plasma display panel including first and second scan electrode groups, a voltage supply unit supplying a scan bias voltage and a scan voltage, first and second charge delay units that receive the scan bias voltage from the voltage supply unit and supply the scan bias voltage to the first and second scan electrode groups, first and scan signal supply units, and first and second voltage return units. The first scan signal supply unit receives the scan voltage, supplies a scan signal, of which a lowest voltage is the scan voltage, to one scan electrode belonging to the first scan electrode group, and allows the other scan electrodes to be floated.

Abstract: A PDP driving circuit is comprised of a power recovery unit for recovering an electric power from a capacitive load by resonance operation with PDP which is the capacitive load Cp, and reusing the recovered power. The power recovery unit includes a recovery inductor for resonating with the capacitive load, a recovery switch element for connecting the recovery capacitor to the capacitive load and recovery inductor, and forming a channel for passing resonance current, a counterflow preventive diode for blocking flow of current in the recovery switch element in reverse polarity direction, and a protective diode for forming a closed current channel including the recovery inductor and recovery switch element when the counterflow preventive diode is changed from ON state to OFF state.

Abstract: A plasma display apparatus is disclosed. The plasma display apparatus includes a plasma display panel including first, second and third electrodes and a sustain driver. The sustain driver supplies a sustain signal swinging between a positive sustain voltage and a negative sustain voltage to the first electrode. The sustain driver supplies a voltage gradually falling from the positive sustain voltage or a voltage gradually rising from the negative sustain voltage to the first electrode during a second period following a first period when the positive sustain voltage or the negative sustain voltage is supplied. The sustain driver includes an inductor into which a current flows in the same direction during the first period and the second period.

Abstract: A plasma display device in which at least one of a first sustain pulse having a first leading period and a second sustain pulse having a second leading period shorter than the first leading period is applied between row electrodes forming each row electrode pair by a number of times previously determined for each subfield, in a sustain period, and an application ratio between the first sustain pulse and the second sustain pulse in the sustain period of each subfield is changed in accordance with a luminance level of a video signal.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method of driving a plasma display panel and apparatus thereof enabling to minimize power consumption for driving the plasma display panel. 1. The present invention includes the steps of generating a reset discharge by supplying ramp waves so as to equalize cells in the plasma display panel in a reset period, supplying selected specific ones of the cells with a scan voltage pulse swinging between a lowest voltage levels of the reset discharge and a data pulse of a voltage level lowered as much as a negative voltage level of the scan voltage pulse, generating an address discharge by the scan voltage pulse and data pulse applied to the selected cells in an address period, and maintaining the address discharge for a sustain period.

Abstract: Technology that enables writing in a PDP to be conducted effectively, even when a time period of the writing is shortened. In a PDP driven by a method in which a write discharge is selectively generated in a plurality of cells by applying a scan pulse sequentially to a plurality of first electrodes and a data pulse selectively to a plurality of third electrodes in a write period, the technology provides for a write auxiliary discharge to be generated at least in a cell selected for writing or in a vicinity of the selected cell when the scan pulse is applied in the write period, the write auxiliary discharge being smaller in magnitude than the write discharge. The write auxiliary discharge results in the generation of priming particles in or in a vicinity of the selected cell, and these priming particles facilitate the generation of a write discharge in the selected cell.

Abstract: Prepared is brightness frequency data that indicates the number of pixels, having the same brightnesses in a brightness distribution for each of the fields represented by an input image signal. Based on the brightness frequency data, the number of subfields for emission at each brightness in a brightness region is adjusted for each of at least two brightness regions. As a result, the greater the frequency indicating the total number of pixels at each of the same brightnesses in a brightness region, the larger the number of subfields allocated to that brightness region. Therefore, satisfactory grayscale representation suitable to human visual characteristics is achieved.

Abstract: A plasma display panel driving method in which a reset step and an address step are sequentially executed in the first subfield and second subfield of each field. A microemission step is executed in the first subfield for generating a microemission discharge between ones of the row electrodes and the column electrodes in display cells in the ON mode by applying a voltage for using the ones of the row electrodes as the anode and the column electrodes as the cathode, between the electrodes immediately after the address step. Moreover, in the microemission step, a potential lower than the voltage generated when applying a sustain pulse is respectively applied to the ones and the others of the row electrodes while applying a voltage as described above between the ones of the row electrodes and the column electrodes.

Abstract: A plasma display apparatus is disclosed. The plasma display apparatus a plasma display panel including a front substrate on which a scan electrode and a sustain electrode are positioned 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 barrier rib that is positioned between the front substrate and the rear substrate to partition a discharge cell and a driver supplying a sustain signal to the scan electrode and the sustain electrode in a sustain period of at least one of a plurality of subfields of a frame. A sustain signal supplied to the scan electrode overlaps a sustain signal supplied to the sustain electrode in the sustain period. The address electrode is electrically floated in the sustain period.

Abstract: A plasma display device is provided. In the plasma display device, a plurality of scan electrodes are divided into one or more scan electrode groups, and different driving signals are applied to the scan electrode groups. More specifically, a minimum voltage detected during a set-down period of a reset period is made to be discrepant from a scan voltage, thereby reducing the amount by which wall charge is erased and stabilizing an address discharge. In addition, different driving signals are applied to a plurality of scan electrodes, and thus, it is possible to stabilize an address discharge even in scan electrodes to which a scan signal is applied late.

Abstract: A plasma display panel is disclosed. The plasma display panel includes a scan electrode and a sustain electrode positioned parallel to each other. Each of the scan electrode and the sustain electrode includes a line portion crossing the address electrode, a first connecting portion and a second connecting portion that extend from the line portion in a direction parallel to the address electrode, a third projection that projects from the first connecting portion in a direction parallel to the line portion, and a fourth projection that projects from the second connecting portion in the direction parallel to the line portion. The third projection and the fourth projection are separated from each other.

Abstract: An image display apparatus for displaying gray-scale images by writing display information to an image display area of a panel. The display information includes values of a plurality of sub-fields that constitute one field. The image display apparatus converts an input image signal into a piece of display information so that a difference between sub-fields in correspondence with each other in adjacent high gray-scale levels becomes less. The image display apparatus displays a gray-scale image in accordance with the piece of display information.

Abstract: Disclosed are a plasma display apparatus and a driving method thereof. The plasma display apparatus includes a plasma display panel having a plurality of address electrodes, a data driver, and a timing controller. The data driver supplies a plurality of data pulses to the plurality of the address electrodes and the timing controller controls a width of a first data pulse of the plurality of data pulses to be different from a width of a second data pulse of the plurality of data pulse.