Abstract:
A plasma display panel driving method and a plasma display device capable of reducing initializing spots generated immediately after the start of driving the plasma display panel, and improving the quality of images to be displayed. A plurality of subfields, each including an initializing period, an address period, and a sustain period, are provided in one field. The one field includes at least one of the subfields in which a gently increasing ramp waveform voltage is applied to the scan electrodes in the initializing period thereof. The ramp waveform voltage to be applied to the scan electrodes for the first time after the start of driving the plasma display panel is generated so as to have a gentler slope than the other ramp waveform voltages have.
Abstract:
In a driving method for a plasma display panel, in the initializing period in at least one of a plurality of subfields, selective initializing operation is performed that selectively causes initializing discharge only in a discharge cell having undergone address discharge in an immediately preceding address period. The selective initializing operation includes the step of applying first voltage to the sustain electrode and applying an up-ramp waveform voltage to the scan electrode, the step of applying a down-ramp waveform voltage to the scan electrode and then applying a positive rectangular voltage to it, and the step of applying second voltage higher than the first voltage to the sustain electrode and applying a down-ramp waveform voltage to the scan electrode.
Abstract:
A plasma display apparatus usable as a 3D image display apparatus can reduce the crosstalk for a user who views a 3D image displayed on a plasma display panel through shutter glasses. For this purpose, the plasma display apparatus displays the 3D image on the plasma display panel having a plurality of pixels each of which is formed of a plurality of discharge cells by alternately repeating a right-eye field and a left-eye field. The plasma display apparatus adds a predetermined gradation value to an image signal to be displayed in a certain field when the number of pixels where the gradation equal to or higher than a high gradation threshold is displayed in the field immediately before a certain field and the gradation equal to or lower than a low gradation threshold is displayed in the certain field is equal to or larger than a number-of-pixels threshold.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce the number of times of forced initialization operations of a plasma display panel to suppress black luminance and to perform a stable writing operation.SOLUTION: In a driving method for a plasma display panel, a field includes: a first kind of subfield in which a scanning electrode applying falling inclined waveform voltage after applying rising inclined waveform voltage rising up to prescribed voltage generating discharge, regardless of the history of discharge, and a scanning electrode applying falling inclined waveform voltage after applying rising inclined waveform voltage rising up to voltage lower than prescribed voltage exist; and a second kind of subfield applying falling inclined waveform voltage to the scanning electrodes. In an initialization period of the first kind of subfield, falling inclined waveform voltage is applied to the scanning electrodes and first voltage is applied to a data electrode. In an initialization period of the second kind of subfield, falling inclined waveform voltage is applied to the scanning electrodes, and second voltage higher than the first voltage is applied to the data electrode.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To suppress black luminance by performing a stable writing operation without using a forced initialization operation and to suppress deterioration of display quality of an image with low luminance.SOLUTION: When a voltage obtained by deducting a voltage of a data electrode from a low pressure side voltage of a sustaining pulse is a first voltage and a voltage obtained by deducting a low pressure side voltage of a writing pulse from a low pressure side voltage of a scanning pulse 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 a scanning electrode as a cathode. When gradation to be displayed without emitting light of a discharge cell in all subfields is defined as gradation "0", dither processing or error diffusion processing is performed for inputted image signals after performing nonlinear processing for replacing image signals which are less than a signal level corresponding to a prescribed gradation threshold with image signals corresponding to the gradation "0".
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To eliminate an emission independent of gradation display by omitting forced initialization operation while stably generating writing operation.SOLUTION: When a voltage obtained by subtracting a data electrode voltage from a low voltage side voltage of a sustaining pulse is a first voltage, and a voltage obtained by subtracting a low voltage side voltage of a data pulse from a low voltage side voltage of a scanning pulse is a third voltage, a voltage obtained by subtracting the third voltage from the first voltage is a discharge start voltage or more where the data electrode is an anode and a scanning electrode is a cathode. In an erasure period, erasure discharge is selectively generated only in a discharge cell with a write discharge generated in a last write period, and in the erasure period, a fourth voltage of positive polarity is applied to the data electrode. In a write period, a downward inclined waveform voltage descending toward a fifth voltage higher than a voltage obtained by superimposing the fourth voltage to a low voltage side voltage of the scanning pulse applied to the scanning electrode is applied to the scanning electrode, and the erasure discharge is selectively generated only in the discharge cell with the write discharge generated in the last write period.