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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a driving method of an AC type plasma display panel capable of improving the display quality of a display device by eliminating a defective operation by which an excessively strong discharge is generated and a displaying discharge (sustaining discharge) is generated in non-display cells in preparatory erasing discharge in which an inclined waveform is used. SOLUTION: In this driving method, the elapsed time from the completion of the preparatory discharge to the preparatory erasing discharge is made shorter (for example, 58 μs) than the three times of the attenuation time constant (for example, 18.2 μs) of quasi-stationary order atoms of xenon. Since the priming effect of the preparatory erasing discharge is sufficiently large, weak discharge is surely generated in the preparatory discharge and the excessively large discharge becomes not to be generated. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for driving a plasma display panel and a plasma display panel preventing erroneous write discharge from occurring without complicating a configuration of a scanning driver and permitting to overlap the scanning pulse wave form without any change in the conventional rectangular waveform. SOLUTION: In a case of selecting a display picture, a scanning pulse to be applied to a scanning electrode belonging to a specified pixel row at an arbitrary timing of scanning is made so as to temporally and partly overlap a scanning pulse to be applied at the next timing of scanning, and alto the picture row to be applied with the scanning pulse at the next timing of scanning is selected so as not to be spatially adjacent to the picture row to be applied with the scanning pulse at the arbitrary timing.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a PDP(plasma display panel) driving method capable of obtaining a high definition video display by performing writein discharge stably even when scanning pulses small in pulse width are used and enhancing emission luminance while prolonging the time capable of being used in a sustaining period in a subfield. SOLUTION: In this driving method, display cells 14 are made to emit light by performing writein discharge while applying scanning pulses and data pulses respectively to scanning electrodes and data electrodes in a scanning period and by performing sustaining discharge while applying sustaining pulse respectively to the scanning electrodes and common electrodes in a sustaining period. Moreover, in the scanning period, common discharge is performed in both of display cells 14 which are made to emit light and display cells 14 while are made not to emit light in the sustaining period in synchronization with the writein discharge.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To increase luminous efficiency without increasing the drive voltage by setting pressure of discharge gas, a product value of an interval between a pair of first and second row electrode and a mixture ratio of xenon gas in the discharge gas, and the interval between the row electrodes or the mixture ratio of the xenon gas within a specific range. SOLUTION: Pressure of discharge gas is set higher than the minimum value of the Paschen curve. The product of an interval between a scanning electrode 12 and a common electrode 13 as a surface discharge interval and a mixture ratio of xenon gas in the discharge gas is within a range from 150 to 300 with the units in μm and % for the interval and the mixture ratio, respectively. The surface discharge interval of 120 μm or the mixture ratio of the xenon gas of 2.5% or smaller is set. Luminous efficiency is increased considerably in particular, when the surface discharge interval is 150 μm or larger. The mixture ratio of the xenon gas is consequently set to 2% or less. Filling pressure of the discharge gas of 400 Torr or higher is desirable.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce peak currents flowing through scanning electrodes at the time of these discharges by increasing the variation of occurence of discharges at the time of writing discharges and at the time of sustaining discharges. SOLUTION: In the driving method of a surface discharge type plasma display panel in which the selecting of display pixels is performed by performing preliminary discharges prior to the selecting of the display pixels and by impressing scanning pulses on row electrodes 12 in time-division manner after these preliminary dis-charges and by selectively impressing data pulses on column electrodes 19 while making them to be in synchronism with the scanning pulses and sustaining discharges are performed only on these display pixels, the absolute value of the voltage of a scanning pulse which is to be at first impressed on the row electrode 12 at least after the preliminary discharges is made be smaller than that of voltages of other scanning pulses which are to be impressed on the other row electrodes 12.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an AC discharge type plasma display panel and its manufacturing method that can reduce luminance by pre-discharge, can dispense with the timing adjustment of the pre-charge, and has a remarkably high degree of freedom of driving and a high contrast ratio. SOLUTION: A transparent glass front board 10 and a back board 11 are arranged opposite to each other by separating them by a predetermined gap, and the inside of the gap is filled with a discharge gas and divided into multiple display cells 32 and multiple pre-discharge cells 31. Then, image display is carried out by generating the writing of display data and maintenance discharge in the display cells 32 by the pre-discharge effect from the pre-discharge cells 31. Display cell electrodes 12, 13, 19 control the discharge of the display cells 32. On the other hand, pre-discharge electrode couples 30 to generate discharge in the pre-discharge cells 31 are formed independently from the display cell electrodes and are driven and controlled independently from the display cells. The pre-discharge cells 31 are also independent from the display cells in terms of structure, driving and control and execute pre-discharge by sine-wave driving having a low driving frequency.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To execute sure and simple erasing operation even when the dispersion of cell characteristics is increased by gradually reducing the amplitude of a maintenance pulse to erase maintenance discharge. SOLUTION: At the end of a maintenance period, the amplitude of maintenance pulses impressed to a common electrode and a scanning electrode is gradually reduced. A waveform synthesized from voltage waveforms (A), (B) impressed to the common and scanning electrodes is an inter-electrode synthetic waveform (C). When the voltage waveform (C) is impressed between the common and scanning electrodes, wall charge is neutralized by the generation of weak discharge functionally similarly to a conventinal thick width erasing method, weak discharge having an erasing function is not simultaneously generated in all cells because the amplitude of the voltage waveform is gradually reduced but erasing is executed in each cell at different timing in accordance with the dispersion of each cell characteristic. Consequently the dispersion of cell characteristics is automatically absorbed and optimunt erasing operation is attained in all cells.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make the setting conditions of data pulses adjustable for each emitted color and improve the display quality over the whole screen, by providing data drives, which output data pulses for writing display information to each pixel for respective kinds of color emission. SOLUTION: A data driver 5 is divided to R data driver 5a , G data driver 5b and B data driver 5c according to their color. The R data driver 5a is connected to the data electrodes 191 , 194 , ...9n-2 which form a pixel train of R; the G data driver 5b to the data electrodes 192 , 195 ,...19n-1 which form a pixel train of G and the B data driver 5c to the data electrodes, 193 , 196 ,...19n which form a pixel train of B according to emitted color. The three kinds of data drivers 5a , 5b and 5c which respectively correspond to three kinds-R, G and B- of emitted colors are capable of adjusting data pulse width, output voltage and output timing independently of each other and being set so that the writing discharges of their own emitted color pixels are properly generated.