Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080252562 | Plasma Display Panel Driving Method and Plasma Display Device - A method for driving a plasma display panel including discharge cells at the intersections of data electrodes D | 10-16-2008 |
20080309591 | Image Display Method - An image display method for allowing an image display device having a large number of pixels arrayed in a planar form to perform an image display by forming one field period from plural sub-fields for which luminance weights to be displayed are determined, and choosing plural luminances among displayable luminances as luminances for display by combining the luminance weights of the sub-fields, so that the respective pixels are controlled not to emit light or to emit light in each sub-field correspondingly to the luminances for display to be displayed. At least one threshold value is set, and when a pixel is allowed to emit light at a luminance for display at or higher than a first threshold value, which is the smallest threshold value, the pixel is controlled not to emit light constantly or to emit light constantly in a sub-field having the smallest luminance weight. | 12-18-2008 |
20090015516 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD OF DRIVING THE SAME - A sub-field lighting rate measuring unit measures a lighting rate in a final sub-field. When the measured lighting rate exceeds a threshold value, a blank signal generator maintains a blank signal at a low level in a sustain time period in a sub-field. An output control circuit brings an output control signal into a low level on the basis of the blank signal. In this case, no data pulse is applied to an address electrode, so that there is no power consumed at the time of the rise and the fall of the data pulse. | 01-15-2009 |
20090085838 | PLASMA DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD OF DRIVING PLASMA DISPLAY PANEL - A plasma display device has a cumulative time measuring circuit for measuring the current-flow cumulative time, and a sustain electrode driving circuit. In the sustain electrode driving circuit, one field includes a plurality of subfields having an initializing period for initializing the discharge cells, an address period for selecting discharge cells to be discharged, and a sustain period for causing sustain discharge in the discharge cells selected in the address period. The sustain electrode driving circuit drives the sustain electrode by applying first voltage to the sustain electrode in the initializing period and applying second voltage to the sustain electrode in the address period. The sustain electrode driving circuit varies the value of the second voltage in response to the cumulative time measured by the cumulative time measuring circuit. | 04-02-2009 |
20090091514 | METHOD OF DRIVING PLASMA DISPLAY PANEL AND PLASMA DISPLAY APPARATUS - Plural subfields are provided in one single field period, where each subfield has an initialization period during which a gradient waveform voltage gently falling is applied to a scan electrode to generate initializing discharge in a discharge cell; a writing period during which a scan pulse voltage is applied to a scan electrode to generate writing discharge in a discharge cell; and a sustain period during which sustain discharge is generated in a discharge cell selected, by the number of times corresponding to a luminance weight. The lowest voltage of a falling gradient waveform voltage in a subfield with the smallest luminance weight is set so as to be lower than that with the largest luminance weight. A method of driving a plasma display panel is provided that generates stable writing discharge without increasing voltage required for generating writing discharge even for a large-screen, high-luminance panel. | 04-09-2009 |
20090122041 | PLASMA DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD OF DRIVING PLASMA DISPLAY PANEL - In displaying a predetermined image on a plasma display panel, occurrence of an initializing bright point can be suppressed to reduce the maximum voltage in an all-cell initializing operation, light emission in the all-cell initializing operation is suppressed to reduce the black luminance, and the contrast is sharpened. In driving the plasma display panel, one field period includes a plurality of subfields having a setup period for causing initializing discharge in discharge cells, an address period, and a sustain period. One field period includes at least one subfield for applying ramp waveform voltage increasing in the setup period to the scan electrodes. The maximum voltage of the ramp waveform voltage can be varied. When a predetermined image establishing a previously determined condition is displayed, the ramp waveform voltage is generated whose maximum voltage is smaller than when an image other than the predetermined image is displayed, and a positive voltage is applied to the data electrodes at least while the ramp waveform voltage having the smaller maximum voltage is applied to the scan electrodes. | 05-14-2009 |
20090122042 | PLASMA DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DRIVING PLASMA DISPLAY PANEL - One field period includes a plurality of subfields each having an initialization period in which a gradually descending sloping waveform voltage is applied to a scan electrode, a writing period in which a negative scan pulse voltage is applied to the scan electrode, and a sustain period. A sloping waveform voltage is generated by switching a minimum voltage in the sloping waveform voltage between a first voltage and a second voltage that has a lower voltage value than that of the first voltage. The ratio in one field period of a subfield in which an initialization is carried out by the sloping waveform voltage whose minimum voltage is the second voltage is increased when a temperature of the plasma display panel is determined to be low as compared with when the temperature is determined to be not low. | 05-14-2009 |
20090135172 | PLASMA DISPLAY DEVICE AND PLASMA-DISPLAY-PANEL DRIVING METHOD - In a plasma-display-panel driving method, a field period is divided into a plurality of sub fields, each of which has an address period for allowing discharge cells to selectively generate an address discharge and a sustain period for allowing the discharge cells having generated the address discharge to generate a sustain discharge by a number of times corresponding to a brightness weight. In the sustain period, a period for setting display electrode pairs to the base potential is disposed between the sustain pulse for causing the final sustain discharge in the sustain period and the previous sustain pulse. In a time interval corresponding to the lighting ratio of the discharge cells in the sub field after applying to the display electrode pairs a voltage for generating the final sustain discharge, a voltage for reducing the potential difference between electrodes of the display electrode pairs is applied to the display electrode pairs. Accordingly, it is possible to generate a stable address discharge and thus to reduce a crosstalk without increasing the voltage for generating the address discharge. | 05-28-2009 |
20090146922 | Image Display Device - An image display device includes a pair of sustain pulse generators for applying either a first sustain pulse or a second sustain pulse to the display electrodes. The first and second sustain pulses generate a sustain discharge twice and once, respectively, in discharge cells when the voltage applied between the display electrodes changes. The application of the first sustain pulse is performed by generating a first discharge by applying a voltage to one of the display electrodes using the clamp corresponding to the one of the display electrodes, and then generating a second discharge by applying a voltage to the other of the display electrodes using the clamp corresponding to the other of the display electrodes. The application of the second sustain pulse is performed by generating a first discharge by applying a voltage to each of the display electrodes using the clamps corresponding to each of the display electrodes. | 06-11-2009 |
20090231317 | PLASMA DISPLAY PANEL DRIVE METHOD AND PLASMA DISPLAY DEVICE - A plasma display panel is driven by providing a plurality of subfields within one field period, the subfield having an initializing period in which the initializing discharge is generated in a discharge cell by applying a ramp-waveform voltage that is gradually descending to a scan electrode, an address period in which an address discharge is generated in the discharge cell by applying a scan pulse voltage to the scan electrode, and a sustain period in which sustain discharges by the number of times corresponding to the luminance weight are generated in the selected discharge cell. The lowest voltage is set of the descending ramp-waveform voltage in the subfield where the luminance weight is the smallest lower than the same voltage in the subfield where the luminance weight is the largest, and a voltage is kept for a prescribed period after the descending ramp-waveform voltage reaches the lowest voltage in the subfield where the luminance weight is the smallest. | 09-17-2009 |
20090237330 | PLASMA DISPLAY DEVICE AND PLASMA-DISPLAY-PANEL DRIVING METHOD - In a plasma display device, a period for connecting display electrode pairs to the base potential is disposed between a sustain pulse for generating the final sustain discharge and the previous sustain pulse based on a lighting ratio of the discharge cells in the corresponding subfield, and a voltage for reducing an interelectrode potential difference of the display electrode pairs is applied to the display electrode pairs in a predetermined time period corresponding to the lighting ratio of the discharge cells in the corresponding subfield after applying the sustain pulse for generating the final sustain discharge to the scan electrodes. | 09-24-2009 |
20090284446 | PLASMA DISPLAY DEVICE AND PLASMA-DISPLAY-PANEL DRIVING METHOD - A plasma display device includes a plasma display panel that has plural scan electrodes and plural sustain electrodes constituting display electrode pairs; and a sustain pulse generating circuit that divides a field period into a plurality of sub fields having an initializing period, an address period, and a sustain period and that generates the sustain pulse with a variable rising slope. The sustain pulse generating circuit generates at least two kinds of sustain pulses in which the rising slope of one sustain pulse is steeper than that of the other sustain pulse in the sustain period of at least one sub field of the plural sub fields and applies the sustain pulse having the steeper rising slope to one electrode of each display electrode pair continuously twice or more at the end of the sustain period. | 11-19-2009 |
20090303222 | PLASMA DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DRIVING PLASMA DISPLAY PANEL - Provided are a plasma display device and a method for driving the plasma display panel. The plasma display device with a panel having high luminance can generate a stable address discharge without increasing the voltage required to generate an address discharge when the current accumulated time of the panel has increased. To achieve this advantage, the plasma display device includes an accumulated-time-measurement-circuit and a scan-electrode-driving-circuit. | 12-10-2009 |
20100033459 | PLASMA DISPLAY DEVICE AND DRIVING METHOD OF PLASMA DISPLAY PANEL - A stable address discharge is generated and number of unlit cells is decreased without heightening the voltage necessary for generating an address discharge. For this purpose, the device includes a plasma display panel and a driving circuit for driving the plasma display panel, in which the driving circuit drives the plasma display panel having a sub-field group formed of two or more continuous sub-fields for controlling addressing provided in one field period, so as not to generate sustain discharge in the discharge cell not causing sustain discharge and also in the subsequent sub-fields, the discharge cell is initialized by applying a ramp waveform voltage descending gently to the scan electrode, the lowest voltage of the ramp waveform voltage of the sub-field included in the sub-field group is made different from the lowest voltage of the ramp waveform voltage of the sub-field not included in the sub-field group. | 02-11-2010 |
20100039417 | PLASMA DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD OF DRIVING THE SAME - A scan electrode driving circuit applies a rising ramp waveform voltage to scan electrodes (SCN | 02-18-2010 |
20100060627 | PLASMA DISPLAY DEVICE AND DRIVING METHOD OF PLASMA DISPLAY PANEL - A scan electrode driving circuit applies a first ramp waveform rising from a first potential (Vi | 03-11-2010 |
20100066721 | PLASMA DISPLAY DEVICE AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - A first ramp waveform rising from a first potential (Vi | 03-18-2010 |
20100066727 | PLASMA DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD OF DRIVING THE SAME - A scan electrode driving circuit applies a rising ramp waveform voltage to scan electrodes (SCN | 03-18-2010 |
20100103161 | PLASMA DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD OF DRIVING THE SAME - A voltage of sustain electrodes (SU | 04-29-2010 |
20100118056 | PLASMA DISPLAY DEVICE AND PLASMA DISPLAY PANEL DRIVING METHOD - In a plasma display device and a method for driving a plasma display panel, fluctuation of emission luminance of a discharge cell is reduced and display quality of an image is improved. The plasma display device is provided with a plasma display panel having a plurality of scanning electrodes and sustaining electrodes which configure a display electrode pair. The plasma display device is also provided with a sustaining pulse generating circuit, which has a plurality of subfields having an initializing period, a writing period and a sustaining period in one field period, and generates three kinds of sustaining pulses, i.e., a first sustaining pulse to be reference, a second sustaining pulse whose start-up is sharper than that of the first sustaining pulse and that of a third sustaining pulse, and the third sustaining pulse whose trailing edge is sharper than that of the first sustaining pulse and that of the second sustaining pulse, by periodically switching the pulses. In a sustaining period of at least one subfield in one field period, the third sustaining pulse is applied to one electrode of the electrode pair, then just after the application, the second sustaining pulse is applied to the other electrode of the display electrode pair. | 05-13-2010 |
20100128023 | DRIVING DEVICE AND DRIVING METHOD OF PLASMA DISPLAY PANEL AND PLASMA DISPLAY DEVICE - Any of first and second sub-field configurations is selected. In the first sub-field configuration, a width of a write pulse of a sub-field with a lowest display luminance is not more than widths of write pulses of the other sub-fields. In the second sub-field configuration, the width of the write pulse of the sub-field with the lowest display luminance is larger than the widths of the write pulses of the other sub-fields. When the first sub-field configuration is selected, a voltage applied to a sustain electrode in a write period of the sub-field with the lowest display luminance is set higher than a voltage applied to the sustain electrode in write periods of the other sub-fields. When the second sub-field configuration is selected, the voltage applied to the sustain electrode in the write period of the sub-field with the lowest display luminance is set to be the same as the voltage applied to the sustain electrode in the write period of any of the other sub-fields. | 05-27-2010 |
20100177088 | PLASMA DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD OF DRIVING THE SAME - A voltage of sustain electrodes (SU | 07-15-2010 |
20100188386 | PLASMA DISPLAY DEVICE AND PLASMA DISPLAY PANEL DRIVE METHOD - A stable address discharge is generated to achieve a high quality of image display. For this purpose, a plasma display panel, a scan electrode driving circuit, and a partial light-emitting rate detecting circuit are provided. The scan electrode driving circuit performs an address operation by sequentially applying a scan pulse to scan electrodes in an address period. The partial light-emitting rate detecting circuit divides the display area of the plasma display panel into a plurality of regions, and detects a rate of the number of discharge cells to be lit with respect to the number of discharge cells, as a partial light-emitting rate, in each of the regions. The scan electrode driving circuit performs the address operation earlier on the regions having the higher light-emitting rates detected in the partial light-emitting rate detecting circuit in decreasing order of value. | 07-29-2010 |
20100194732 | DRIVING DEVICE AND DRIVING METHOD OF PLASMA DISPLAY PANEL, AND PLASMA DISPLAY APPARATUS - In a setup period of a first SF, a first ramp waveform (L | 08-05-2010 |
20100201678 | DRIVING DEVICE, DRIVING METHOD AND PLASMA DISPLAY APPARATUS - A first ramp waveform (RW | 08-12-2010 |
20100207917 | DRIVING DEVICE, DRIVING METHOD AND PLASMA DISPLAY APPARATUS - In a plasma display panel apparatus, luminance when a display state of a panel is all-black (all pixels display black throughout one field period) is reduced. | 08-19-2010 |
20100265219 | DRIVING DEVICE AND DRIVING METHOD OF PLASMA DISPLAY PANEL AND PLASMA DISPLAY APPARATUS - A two-phase driving operation is performed by a first circuit and a second circuit in at least one sub-field. The first circuit applies a first ramp waveform that drops from a first potential to a second potential to a plurality of first scan electrodes in a setup period, and sequentially applies a scan pulse to the plurality of first scan electrodes in a write period. The second circuit applies a second ramp waveform that drops from the first potential to a third potential that is higher than the second potential to a plurality of second scan electrodes in the setup period, and holds the second scan electrodes at a fourth potential that is higher than the third potential in a period where the scan pulse is applied to the first scan electrodes, and then sequentially applies a scan pulse to the plurality of second electrodes in the write period. Discharge failures during write discharges can be prevented from occurring by applying the two-phase driving operation. | 10-21-2010 |
20100277465 | PLASMA DISPLAY DEVICE AND PLASMA DISPLAY PANEL DRIVE METHOD - The wall charge is appropriately adjusted in the initializing period, and occurrence of an abnormal discharge and an unlit cell is suppressed in the address period. Therefore, a plasma display device has a plasma display panel having a plurality of discharge cells including a display electrode pair that is formed of a scan electrode and a sustain electrode, and a scan electrode driving circuit. The scan electrode driving circuit disposes a plurality of subfields having an initializing period, an address period, and a sustain period in one field, generates a decreasing down-ramp voltage in the initializing period, and generates a negative scan pulse voltage and applies it to the scan electrodes in the address period. In the initializing period, after the generation of the down-ramp voltage, the scan electrode driving circuit generates negative pulse voltage lower than the minimum voltage of the down-ramp voltage and applies it to the scan electrodes. | 11-04-2010 |
20110050752 | PLASMA DISPLAY DEVICE AND DRIVE METHOD OF PLASMA DISPLAY PANEL - Crosstalk between adjacent discharge cells is reduced for a stable sustain discharge. A plasma display panel has scan electrodes and sustain electrodes arranged so that the positions of the corresponding scan electrode and sustain electrode are alternately interchanged in each display electrode pair, and image signal processing circuit converts an image signal into image data indicating light emission and no light emission in each discharge cell in each subfield. The image signal processing circuit generates the image data so that a combination of image data is avoided. One of two adjacent discharge cells having side-by-side scan electrodes is lit and the other of the discharge cells is unlit in one subfield of a plurality of subfields forming one field, and the one of the discharge cells is unlit and the other of the discharge cells is lit in a subfield after the one subfield in the same field. | 03-03-2011 |
20110090195 | DRIVING DEVICE AND DRIVING METHOD OF PLASMA DISPLAY PANEL, AND PLASMA DISPLAY APPARATUS - A driving device drives a plasma display panel having a plurality of discharge cells at intersections of a plurality of scan electrodes and a plurality of sustain electrodes with a plurality of data electrodes by a sub-field method. A scan electrode drive circuit applies a first ramp waveform that drops from a first potential to a second potential to the plurality of scan electrodes in a first period in a setup period of a sub-field. A sustain electrode drive circuit applies a second ramp waveform that drops from a fourth potential to a fifth potential to the plurality of sustain electrodes when a potential detection circuit detects that the plurality of scan electrodes attain a third potential that is lower than the first potential and higher than the second potential in the first period. | 04-21-2011 |
20110109653 | PLASMA DISPLAY PANEL APPARATUS AND DRIVING METHOD OF PLASMA DISPLAY PANEL - In a two-phase driving operation that is performed in at least one sub-field when an average luminance level is a predetermined value or more, a first ramp waveform that drops from a first potential to a second potential is applied to a plurality of first electrodes, a second ramp waveform that drops from a third potential that is higher than the first potential to a fourth potential that is higher than the second potential is applied to a plurality of second scan electrodes in a setup period, and a scan pulse is sequentially applied to the plurality of first scan electrodes, and then a scan pulse is sequentially applied to the plurality of second electrodes in a write period. The two-phase driving operation is employed to prevent discharge failures during write discharges. | 05-12-2011 |
20110157138 | PLASMA DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD OF DRIVING PLASMA DISPLAY PANEL - A scan electrode driving circuit performs an address operation by applying a scan pulse to scan electrodes in address periods. The partial light-emitting rate detecting circuit divides the plasma display panel display area into a plurality of regions, and detects a rate of the number of discharge cells to be lit with respect to the number of all the discharge cells in each region, as a partial light-emitting rate, in each subfield. The scan electrode driving circuit performs a first initializing operation in the initializing periods, and a second initializing operation in the address periods. The scan electrode driving circuit performs the address operation on the region having the highest partial light-emitting rate detected in the partial light-emitting rate detecting circuit, immediately after the first initializing operation, and on the region having the second highest partial light-emitting rate immediately after the second initializing operation. | 06-30-2011 |
20110157258 | PLASMA DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DRIVING PLASMA DISPLAY PANEL - A stable address discharge is caused to enhance the image display quality. For this purpose, a plasma display panel, a scan electrode driving circuit, and a partial light-emitting rate detecting circuit are provided. The scan electrode driving circuit performs an address operation by applying a scan pulse to scan electrodes in address periods. The partial light-emitting rate detecting circuit divides the display area of the plasma display panel into a plurality of regions, and detects a rate of the number of discharge cells to be lit with respect to the number of all the discharge cells in each region, as a partial light-emitting rate, in each subfield. In a predetermined subfield where the number of sustain pulses is smaller than the number of sustain pulses in the immediately preceding subfield, the scan electrode driving circuit changes the order of applying the scan pulse to the scan electrodes, according to the partial light-emitting rates in the immediately preceding subfield. | 06-30-2011 |
20120001882 | DRIVING DEVICE AND DRIVING METHOD OF PLASMA DISPLAY PANEL, AND PLASMA DISPLAY APPARATUS - In a two-phase driving operation that is performed in at least a sub-field having a largest luminance weight, a first ramp waveform that drops from a first potential to a second potential is applied to a plurality of first scan electrodes, a second ramp waveform that drops from a third potential that is higher than the first potential to a fourth potential that is higher than the second potential is applied to a plurality of second scan electrodes in a setup period, and a scan pulse is sequentially applied to the plurality of first scan electrodes, and then a scan pulse is sequentially applied to the plurality of second scan electrodes in a write period. The two-phase driving operation is employed to prevent a discharge failure during a write discharge. | 01-05-2012 |
20120092394 | DRIVING METHOD FOR PLASMA DISPLAY PANEL, AND PLASMA DISPLAY DEVICE - A stable address discharge is caused by preventing an increase in the necessary scan pulse voltage (amplitude), and thereby achieves high image display quality. For this purpose, the image display area of a plasma display panel is divided into a plurality of regions, and a partial light-emitting rate is detected in each region. The partial light-emitting rate in a current subfield is set as a first partial light-emitting rate. The partial light-emitting rate used for magnitude comparison between the partial light-emitting rates in a subfield identical with the current subfield in a field immediately preceding the field to which the current subfield belongs to is set as a second partial light-emitting rate. The absolute value of the difference between the first partial light-emitting rate and the second partial light-emitting rate is calculated in each region. In the region where the value is equal to or larger than a light-emitting rate threshold value, the first partial light-emitting rate is used for the magnitude comparison between the partial light-emitting rates in the current subfield. In the region where the value is smaller than the light-emitting rate threshold value, the second partial light-emitting rate is used for the magnitude comparison between the partial light-emitting rates in the current subfield. | 04-19-2012 |
20120105516 | PLASMA DISPLAY PANEL DRIVING METHOD AND PLASMA DISPLAY DEVICE - An image display region is divided into a plurality of partial display regions, the scan electrodes included in each partial display region are classified into two scan electrode groups: a scan electrode group formed of the odd-numbered scan electrodes; and a scan electrode group formed of the even-numbered scan electrodes. Scan pulses are sequentially applied to one scan electrode group, and then scan pulses are sequentially applied to the other scan electrode group. The pulse width of the scan pulses applied to the first through predetermined-number-th scan electrodes belonging to the one scan electrode group is set to be longer than the pulse width of the scan pulses applied to the remaining scan electrodes belonging to the one scan electrode group. The pulse width of the scan pulses applied to the first through predetermined-number-th scan electrodes belonging to the other scan electrode group is set to be longer than the pulse width of the scan pulses applied to the remaining scan electrodes belonging to the other scan electrode group. | 05-03-2012 |
20120113165 | PLASMA DISPLAY DEVICE AND DRIVE METHOD FOR A PLASMA DISPLAY PANEL - A stable address discharge is caused by preventing an increase in the scan pulse voltage (amplitude) necessary for causing a stable address discharge, and thereby achieves high image display quality. For this purpose, the following operations are performed. The image display area of a plasma display panel is divided into a plurality of regions. In each region, the rate of the number of discharge cells to be lit with respect to the number of all discharge cells in each region is detected, as a partial light-emitting rate of each region, and the partial light-emitting rate is detected in each subfield. The region having the maximum partial light-emitting rate is detected and set as a first region. The regions adjacent to the first region are set as second regions, and a predetermined offset value is added to the partial light-emitting rates of the second regions so as to provide corrected partial light-emitting rates. Magnitude comparison is performed between the partial light-emitting rates and corrected partial light-emitting rates, and the order of address operations on the respective regions is determined based on the result of the magnitude comparison. | 05-10-2012 |
20120200564 | PLASMA DISPLAY DEVICE DRIVE METHOD, PLASMA DISPLAY DEVICE AND PLASMA DISPLAY SYSTEM - A high-quality stereoscopic image is displayed by suppressing crosstalk between an image for the right eye and an image for the left eye and stabilizing an address discharge. For this purpose, in the method for driving the plasma display apparatus, an image for the right eye and an image for the left eye are alternately displayed on the plasma display panel by alternately repeating a field for the right eye and a field for the left eye. In each of the field for the right eye and the field for the left eye, the subfield having the smallest luminance weight is placed first, the subfield having the largest luminance weight is placed next, and the other subfields are placed thereafter so as to have luminance weights sequentially decreasing. | 08-09-2012 |
20120200616 | PLASMA DISPLAY DEVICE DRIVE METHOD, PLASMA DISPLAY DEVICE AND PLASMA DISPLAY SYSTEM - Crosstalk between right-eye images and left-eye images is suppressed, and high-quality 3D images are displayed. For this purpose, a driving method of a plasma display apparatus is provided. The plasma display apparatus has a plasma display panel and a driver circuit for driving the panel. In this driving method, right-eye images and left-eye images are alternately displayed on the panel by alternately repeating right-eye fields, each of which has a plurality of subfields and displays a right-eye image signal, and left-eye fields, each of which has a plurality of subfields and displays a left-eye image signal. Each subfield has an address period for performing an address operation and a sustain period for performing a sustain operation. In a discharge cell where gradation of a predetermined threshold or higher is displayed, the address operation is prohibited in the subfield disposed last in the field. | 08-09-2012 |
20120280954 | PLASMA DISPLAY PANEL DRIVING METHOD AND PLASMA DISPLAY DEVICE - Stable address discharge is caused even in a plasma display panel where the definition is enhanced and the screen is enlarged. For this purpose, in a driving method of a plasma display panel, the image display region of the panel is divided into a plurality of partial display regions each of which includes a plurality of consecutively arranged scan electrodes. In each partial display region, a sequential address operation of sequentially applying scan pulses to the scan electrodes based on the arranging sequence of the scan electrodes on the panel is performed in the address period. To the scan electrode to which a scan pulse is to be firstly applied in the address period, a scan pulse of which the pulse width is set longer than that of the scan pulse to be applied to the other scan electrodes is applied. | 11-08-2012 |
20120280963 | PLASMA DISPLAY PANEL DRIVING METHOD AND PLASMA DISPLAY DEVICE - The present invention allows a plasma display apparatus having a high-luminance panel to decrease initializing bright points that easily occur just after power-on of the apparatus, enhancing the quality of display image. The panel has discharge cells, each of which including a data electrode, and a display electrode pair formed of a scan electrode and a sustain electrode. In the driving method of the panel, one field period is formed of subfields, each of which including an initializing period for generating initializing discharge in the discharge cells, an address period for applying scan pulses to the scan electrodes and applying address pulses to the data electrodes, and a sustain period for applying sustain pulses to the data electrode pairs. In the structure above, a predetermined period after power-off of the apparatus has no generation of the address pulses, the scan pulses, and the sustain pulses. | 11-08-2012 |
20120281029 | METHOD FOR DRIVING PLASMA DISPLAY DEVICE - The plasma display apparatus suppresses addressing failure, enhancing stability of address discharge, and therefore, enhancing quality of display image on the panel. The present invention attains above through the followings: preparing display combination sets each of which having difference in number of combinations; determining whether or not magnitude of image signals, except for a predetermined color image signal, is greater than a threshold; and according to the determination above, selecting a set for the predetermined color image signal from the display combination sets. A display combination set used for the predetermined color image signal when the image signals except for the predetermined color image signal have magnitude not less than the threshold is smaller in number of combinations than that used for the predetermined color image signal when the image signals except for the predetermined color image signal have magnitude smaller than the threshold. | 11-08-2012 |
20120287105 | METHOD FOR DRIVING PLASMA DISPLAY PANEL AND PLASMA DISPLAY DEVICE - The present invention provides a method of driving a plasma display apparatus, which allows a high-luminance large-sized panel to have stable address discharge, with increase in power consumption suppressed. In the method, one field is divided into a plurality of subfields, each of which having an address period and a sustain period. A ramp voltage is applied to the scan electrodes in the end of the sustain period. The ramp voltage increases from a base potential toward a predetermined voltage, after reaching the predetermined voltage, the ramp voltage is maintained at the voltage for a predetermined period of time and decreases to the base potential. Besides, when the number of the sustain pulses is not greater than a predetermined threshold in a subfield, the predetermined period of time of an immediately after subfield is determined to be longer than the predetermined period of time of other subfields. | 11-15-2012 |
20120293469 | PLASMA DISPLAY PANEL DRIVING METHOD AND PLASMA DISPLAY DEVICE - Stable address discharge is caused in a plasma display panel. For this purpose, the image display region of the panel is divided into a plurality of partial display regions, and scan electrodes in each partial display region are classified into two scan electrode groups based on the arranging sequence of the scan electrodes on the panel. The two scan electrode groups are a first scan electrode group including odd-numbered scan electrodes, and a second scan electrode group including even-numbered scan electrodes, In each partial display region in the address period, an overshoot address operation is performed. To the scan electrodes to which scan pulses are to be applied from the first time to a predetermined-number-th time in each scan electrode group, scan pulses are applied where the pulse cycle is set longer than that of the scan pulses to be applied to the other scan electrodes. | 11-22-2012 |
20120293508 | PLASMA DISPLAY DEVICE, PLASMA DISPLAY SYSTEM, AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING SHUTTER GLASS FOR PLASMA DISPLAY DEVICE - In a plasma display apparatus capable of displaying an image for stereoscopic view, the image display quality is enhanced. For this purpose, the plasma display apparatus includes a driver circuit and a timing generation circuit. The driver circuit drives the plasma display panel in a manner such that a field for the right eye and a field for the left eye are alternately repeated, each field is formed of an all-cell initializing subfield and a selective initializing subfield, and the top subfield of each field is the all-cell initializing subfield. The timing generation circuit generates shutter opening/closing timing signals. The timing generation circuit generates the shutter opening/closing timing signals such that both timing signal for opening/closing the right eye shutter and timing signal for opening/closing the left eye shutter are set to OFF in the all-cell initializing period of the fields for the right eye and for the left eye. | 11-22-2012 |
20120327053 | PLASMA DISPLAY DEVICE, PLASMA DISPLAY SYSTEM, DRIVE METHOD FOR PLASMA DISPLAY PANEL, AND CONTROL METHOD FOR SHUTTER GLASSES FOR PLASMA DISPLAY DEVICE - Sharp contrast is achieved while the driving time in displaying a 3D image on a plasma display panel is shorted. For this purpose, an all-cell initializing subfield for applying up-ramp waveform voltage and down-ramp waveform voltage to a scan electrode in the initializing period is set as the first subfield of one field. The plasma display panel is driven by one of 3D drive and 2D drive. A gradient of at least one of the up-ramp waveform voltage and the down-ramp waveform voltage in the all-cell initializing period during the 3D drive is set to be steeper than a gradient of the one waveform voltage in the all-cell initializing period during the 2D drive. A shutter opening/closing timing signal is generated so that both of a right-eye timing signal and a left-eye timing signal are in the OFF state in the all-cell initializing period during the 3D drive. | 12-27-2012 |
20130002628 | METHOD FOR DRIVING PLASMA DISPLAY DEVICE, PLASMA DISPLAY DEVICE, AND PLASMA DISPLAY SYSTEM - In a plasma display apparatus displaying a stereoscopic image, crosstalk is reduced and an address discharge is caused stably. For this purpose, in the plasma display apparatus displaying a stereoscopic image, each field has a plurality of subfields, each having a sustain period where an up-ramp waveform voltage is applied to the scan electrodes after all the sustain pulses are generated. The luminance weights of the respective subfields are set such that the subfield having the lightest luminance weight is generated first in each field, the subfield having the heaviest luminance weight is generated second, and the third subfield and those thereafter have luminance weights sequentially decreasing. The up-ramp waveform voltage in the sustain period of the first subfield in each field is generated so as to have a gradient gentler than that of the up-ramp waveform voltage in the sustain periods of the subfields generated second and thereafter. | 01-03-2013 |
20130176294 | PLASMA DISPLAY PANEL DRIVE METHOD AND PLASMA DISPLAY DEVICE - In the plasma display apparatus, accidental discharge is prevented from occurring in a second discharge cell. For this purpose, in driving a plasma display panel having first data electrodes and second data electrodes that are arranged in parallel with the first data electrodes in a region outside the region where the plurality of first data electrodes are arranged, first voltage is set to be higher than second voltage in at least one subfield. Here, it is assumed that the first voltage is the voltage derived by subtracting the voltage applied to the first data electrodes from the voltage applied to the second data electrodes when down-ramp waveform voltage is applied to scan electrodes in the initializing period, and the second voltage is the voltage derived by subtracting the low-voltage-side voltage of the address pulse applied to the first electrodes from the voltage applied to the second data electrodes in the address period. | 07-11-2013 |
20130222358 | PLASMA DISPLAY APPARATUS AND PLASMA DISPLAY PANEL DRIVING METHOD - Image display quality in the plasma display apparatus can be enhanced by allowing a stable address operation. For this purpose, the plasma display apparatus includes a scan electrode driver circuit. The scan electrode driver circuit generates driving voltages to be used in a subfield method and applies the driving voltages to scan electrodes. At the end of each sustain period, the scan electrode driver circuit performs the following operation. The scan electrodes are applied with a first ramp waveform voltage that rises from a base electric potential to a first electric potential. Subsequently, the electric potential of the scan electrodes is set to a second electric potential equal to or lower than the first electric potential. Subsequently, the scan electrodes are applied with a second ramp waveform voltage that rises from the second electric potential to a third electric potential higher than the first electric potential. | 08-29-2013 |
20130241972 | METHOD OF DRIVING PLASMA DISPLAY DEVICE AND PLASMA DISPLAY DEVICE - In a plasma display apparatus, contrast is enhanced and a stable address discharge is caused. For this purpose, one of a forced initializing operation and a selective initializing operation is performed in initializing periods. A specified-cell initializing subfield and a selective initializing subfield are set in one field. In the specified-cell initializing subfield, the forced initializing operation is performed on specified discharge cells and the selective initializing operation is performed on the other discharge cells. In the selective initializing subfield, the selective initializing operation is performed on all the discharge cells. In the selective initializing period, a down-ramp waveform voltage is applied to the scan electrodes and a positive voltage is applied to the data electrodes. In the selective initializing subfield, based on the load calculated in the address period of the immediately preceding subfield, the minimum voltage of the down-ramp waveform voltage is controlled. | 09-19-2013 |
20130278649 | DRIVING METHOD FOR PLASMA DISPLAY PANEL, AND PLASMA DISPLAY DEVICE - In the plasma display apparatus, address discharge is caused stably. For this purpose, one of a forced initializing operation and a selective initializing operation is performed in the initializing period. Then, one field includes a specific-cell initializing subfield having an initializing period in which a forced initializing operation is performed in a specific discharge cell and a selective initializing operation is performed in the other discharge cells. In the address period of the specific-cell initializing subfield, the period in which a scan pulse and an address pulse are simultaneously applied to a discharge cell having undergone the selective initializing operation in the initializing period of the specific-cell initializing subfield is made longer than the period in which a scan pulse and an address pulse are simultaneously applied to a discharge cell having undergone the forced initializing operation in the initializing period of the specific-cell initializing subfield. | 10-24-2013 |
20140049529 | METHOD FOR DRIVING PLASMA DISPLAY PANEL AND PLASMA DISPLAY DEVICE - In a plasma display apparatus, the address discharge is stabilized, the contrast is sharpened, and the image display quality is improved. A first up-ramp waveform voltage is applied to the scan electrode, and then a voltage causing no discharge to the scan electrode is applied to the scan electrode, in the sustain period of a weak-discharge sustain operation subfield in a discharge cell that is to be subjected to a forced initializing operation in the initializing period of the subfield immediately after the weak-discharge sustain operation subfield. A second up-ramp waveform voltage is applied to the scan electrode after generation of the first up-ramp waveform voltage, in the sustain period of the weak-discharge sustain-operation subfield in a discharge cell that is to be subjected to a selective initializing operation in the initializing period of the subfield immediately after the weak-discharge sustain-operation subfield. | 02-20-2014 |
20140055423 | IMAGE-DISPLAY-DEVICE DRIVE METHOD, IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE, AND IMAGE DISPLAY SYSTEM - Discharge for detecting the position coordinates of an electronic pen is caused stably, and the position coordinates are detected accurately. For this purpose, in a driving method of an image display device, an image display subfield, a y-coordinate detection subfield, and an x-coordinate detection subfield are included in one field. In an initializing period of the x-coordinate detection subfield, a first voltage is applied to data electrodes and a first down-ramp voltage is applied to scan electrodes. In the initializing period of the image display subfield, a second voltage is applied to the data electrodes and a second down-ramp voltage is applied to the scan electrodes. The voltage derived by subtracting an arrival voltage of the first down-ramp voltage from the first voltage is set higher than the voltage derived by subtracting an arrival voltage of the second down-ramp voltage from the second voltage. | 02-27-2014 |
20140062971 | IMAGE-DISPLAY-DEVICE DRIVE METHOD, IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE, AND IMAGE DISPLAY SYSTEM - Discharge for detecting the position coordinates of an electronic pen is caused stably, and the position coordinates are detected accurately. For this purpose, in a driving method of an image display device, an image display subfield, a y-coordinate detection subfield, and an x-coordinate detection subfield are included in one field. In the x-coordinate detection subfield, an x-coordinate detection waiting period is set in which a voltage higher than an x-coordinate detection voltage is applied to the scan electrodes and a voltage lower than the voltage of x-coordinate detection pulses is applied to the data electrodes. After the x-coordinate detection waiting period, the x-coordinate detection voltage is applied to the scan electrodes, and the x-coordinate detection pulses are sequentially applied to the data electrodes. | 03-06-2014 |
20140062973 | IMAGE-DISPLAY-DEVICE DRIVE METHOD, IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE, AND IMAGE DISPLAY SYSTEM - Discharge for detecting the position coordinates of an electronic pen is caused stably, and the position coordinates are detected accurately. For this purpose, in a driving method of an image display device, an image display subfield group constituted of image display subfields, a y-coordinate detection subfield, and an x-coordinate detection subfield are set in one field. An initializing period, in which an up-ramp voltage and a down-ramp voltage are applied to the scan electrodes, is set in the x-coordinate detection subfield, and the x-coordinate detection subfield is disposed immediately after the y-coordinate detection subfield. | 03-06-2014 |