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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To stably generate a write discharge when an image in black is changed to a normal image by suppressing brightness of black displayed on a plasma display panel by performing stable writing operation without performing forcible initializing operation, and also lowering brightness of a lower gradation following the black.SOLUTION: One field includes a subfield of first kind which generates and applies a maintenance pulse to a display electrode pair in a maintenance period, and a subfield of second kind which does not generate a maintenance pulse in the maintenance period, but generates and applies an up inclined waveform voltage and a down inclined waveform voltage to a scanning electrode. An average brightness level of a displayed image is detected, and one of a subfield having minimum brightness weight among subfields of first kind and the subfield of second kind is made to illuminate at a lighting rate according to the detection result.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To suppress occurrence of a discharge failure and improve contrast.SOLUTION: A plasma display device comprises: drive parts 110, 120, 130 and 140 for applying driving voltage to a scanning electrode, a sustaining electrode and a data electrode of a panel 10; and control parts 100 and 190 for switching, based on a predetermined determination result, whether or not to control the driving parts 110, 120, 130 and 140 and provide an initialization period for applying driving voltage between the scanning electrode, and the data electrode and the sustaining electrode to generate an initialization discharge for activating electric charge in a discharge cell, just before a writing period.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent generation of a discharge failure by activating electric charges in a discharge cell.SOLUTION: A plasma display device includes: a plasma display panel 10 provided with a plurality of pixels including discharge cells having scanning electrodes, maintenance electrodes, and data electrodes; a driving part 116 which has a writing period, a maintenance period, and applies drive voltage to the scanning electrodes, the maintenance electrodes, and the data electrodes for every plurality of subfields provided in one field period; a detection part 111 which detects an index representing luminance variation of an input video signal in a frame; a determination part 113 which determines whether or not the index detected by the detection part 111 is equal to or more than a preset threshold; and control parts 113, 114 which control the driving part 116 to forcibly make the discharge cells emit light when it is determined that the index is equal to or more than the threshold by the determination part 113.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To eliminate light emission which does not relate to gradation display by omitting forcible initialization operation while stably performing writing operation, and to greatly improve a contrast.SOLUTION: In an erasure period, an erasure discharge is selectively generated only with a discharge cell which has generated a write discharge in a write period right before the erasure period. Denoting the voltage obtained by subtracting a voltage applied to a data electrode from a low voltage-side voltage of a sustain pulse as a first voltage, the voltage obtained by subtracting the voltage applied to a data electrode from a high voltage-side voltage of the sustain pulse as a second voltage, and the voltage obtained by subtracting a low voltage-side voltage of a data pulse applied to the data electrode, from a low voltage-side voltage of a scanning pulse as a third voltage, the voltage obtained by subtracting the third voltage from the first voltage is equal to or higher than a discharge start voltage applied with the data electrode as an anode and a scan electrode as a cathode, and the voltage obtained by subtracting the third voltage from the second voltage does not exceed the sum of the discharge start voltage applied with the data electrode as the anode and the scan electrode as the cathode and a discharge start voltage applied with the data electrode as a cathode and the scan electrode as an anode.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To eliminate light emission irrelevant to gradation display by omitting forced initialization operation while reducing discharge delay and stably causing write operation.SOLUTION: In a driving method of a plasma display panel, one field consists of multiple subfields which have a writing period, a maintaining period and an elimination period respectively. During the elimination period, only a discharge cell which has caused writing discharge during the previous writing period causes elimination discharge selectively. The multiple subfields have: first scan operation to apply a scan pulse only to odd-numbered electrodes sequentially in a direction from one scan electrode to the other scan electrode among multiple scan electrodes arranged during the writing period; and second scan operation to apply the scan pulse only to even-numbered electrodes sequentially in a direction from the other scan electrode to one scan electrode among the scan electrodes.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To not only allow a 3D image to be displayed on a plasma display device but also stably cause an initializing operation to display an image of high quality. SOLUTION: Each of a field for right eye and a field for left eye is constituted by, with respect to time, first disposing a subfield having the greatest luminance weight and subsequently disposing subfields in the descending order of luminance weights. A forced initializing operation is performed in an initialization period of the first disposed subfield, and a selective initializing operation is performed in an initialization period of subsequently disposed subfields, and a rectangular wave voltage is applied to a scanning electrode to generate an erase discharge in a sustain period of the last disposed subfield, and a slowly rising ramped waveform voltage is applied to the scanning electrode to generate an erase discharge in a sustain period of subfields disposed before the last disposed subfield, and a write discharge is generated even in the last disposed subfield in a discharge cell which generates a write discharge in at least one subfield. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enhance image display quality by reducing black brightness of display images to heighten contrast when displaying images of a low average brightness level and stably generating writing discharge when displaying images of a high average brightness level. SOLUTION: A method for driving a plasma display panel includes: applying compulsive initialization waveform on a prescribed scanning electrode in an initialization period; providing a specific cell initialization subfield applying non-initialization waveform on other scanning electrodes and a selective initialization subfield applying selective initialization waveform on all the scanning electrodes in the initialization period; providing a specific cell initialization field having the specific cell initialization subfield and a plurality of the selective initialization subfields; and modifying generation frequency of the compulsive initialization waveform in response to size of an average brightness level so as to reduce frequencies applying the compulsive initialization waveform on the scanning electrodes as the average brightness level of input image signals becomes lower. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To suppress the luminance of a black displayed on a plasma display panel by performing stable writing operation without performing forced initializing operation and by reducing the luminance of a tone lower next to that of the black, to stably generate a write discharge when a display image switches from a black image to an ordinary image.SOLUTION: One field includes a first type subfield that generates sustaining pulses of the number corresponding to a luminance weight during a sustaining period and applies the same to a pair of display electrodes, and a second type subfield that generates a rising waveform voltage and a falling waveform voltage without generating sustaining pulses during sustaining period and applies the same to a scanning electrode. The second type subfield is configured as a subfield which has the smallest luminance weight. When an image to be displayed on the plasma display panel fulfills a predetermined condition, a subfield having the smallest luminance weight is forcibly turned on at a predetermined lighting ratio.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To perform a stable writing operation without performing a forced initialization operation and suppress luminance of black displayed in a plasma display panel, as well as to reduce luminance of lower gradation next to black and generate a writing discharge stably when a displayed image switches from a black image to a normal image.SOLUTION: One field includes a first type subfield to generate sustaining pulses of a number corresponding to luminance weight during a sustaining period and apply them to a display electrode pair, and a second type subfield of the least luminance weight to generate an ascending inclined waveform voltage and a descending inclined waveform voltage instead of generating sustaining pulses during a sustaining period and apply them to a scanning electrode. The field detects brightness around a plasma display device, and with a lighting rate corresponding to the detected brightness, forcibly turns on a subfield of the least luminance weight.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve contrast by performing a stable writing operation on a plasma display panel, even if a forced initialization operation is not used.SOLUTION: A fourth voltage is applied to a data electrode in at least a prescribed period including a period when a high pressure side voltage of a sustaining pulse is applied to a scanning electrode in a sustaining period. A fifth voltage which is higher than the fourth voltage is applied to the data electrode in the sustaining period except the prescribed period. When a voltage obtained by deducting the fourth voltage applied to the data electrode from a low pressure side voltage of the sustaining pulse applied to the scanning electrode in the sustaining period is a first voltage and a voltage obtained by deducting a low pressure side voltage of a writing pulse applied to the data electrode from a low pressure side voltage of a scanning pulse applied to the scanning electrode in a writing period is a third voltage, a voltage obtained by deducting the third voltage from the first voltage is equal to or higher than a discharge start voltage having the data electrode as an anode and the scanning electrode as a cathode.