IP Library Granted Patent US 7,576,712
Granted Patent B2
US 7,576,712 · App. 11/302,520 · Granted Aug 18, 2009

Plasma display device and method of driving the same

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Patent No.
US 7,576,712
App. No.
11/302,520
Granted
Aug 18, 2009
Kind
B2
Abstract

The present invention provides a plasma display device including: a plurality of scan electrodes sequentially scanned to be impressed with a scan pulse; an address electrode that is impressed with an address pulse corresponding to the scan pulse, for selection of a display pixel; a scan driving circuit generating the scan pulse; and an address driving circuit generating the address pulse. The address pulse rises in n stages (n is an integer equal to or larger than 2), and a period in a period during which the address pulse rises from a lowest voltage to a highest voltage overlaps a scan pulse immediately prior to the scan pulse corresponding to the address pulse.

Claims (13)

1. A plasma display device comprising:

a plurality of scan electrodes sequentially scanned to be impressed with a scan pulse;

an address electrode that is impressed with an address pulse corresponding to the scan pulse, for selection of a display pixel;

a scan driving circuit generating the scan pulse; and

an address driving circuit generating the address pulse,

wherein the address pulse falls in n stages (n is an integer equal to or larger than 2) and a period in a period during which the address pulse falls from a highest voltage to a lowest voltage overlaps a scan pulse immediately subsequent to the scan pulse corresponding to the address pulse.

2. The plasma display device according to claim 1 , wherein the period is a period during which a voltage one-stage higher than the lowest voltage is sustained.

3. The plasma display device according to claim 2 , wherein a period during which the address pulse sustains a voltage one-stage lower than the highest voltage and falls from the voltage one-stage lower than the highest voltage to the lowest voltage overlaps a scan pulse immediately subsequent to the scan pulse corresponding to the address pulse.

4. The plasma display device according to claim 1 , wherein the address pulse falls in two stages, and a voltage one-stage higher than the lowest voltage of the address pulse is substantially ½ of the highest voltage of the address pulse.

5. The plasma display device according to claim 1 , wherein the address pulse falls in two stages, and a voltage one-stage higher than the lowest voltage of the address pulse is less than ½ of the highest voltage of the address pulse.

6. The plasma display device according to claim 1 , wherein, when the address pulse falls in n stages from the highest voltage to the lowest voltage, a displacement voltage at each fall stage in the n stages is 1/n of a difference voltage between the lowest voltage and the highest voltage.

7. The plasma display device according to claim 1 , wherein a displacement voltage when the address pulse falls from a voltage one-stage higher than the lowest voltage to the lowest voltage is lower than a displacement voltage when the address pulse falls at the other stage.

8. The plasma display device according to claim 1 , wherein the address pulse rises in n stages, and a period during which the address pulse rises from the lowest voltage to a voltage one-stage lower than the highest voltage and sustains the voltage one-stage lower than the highest voltage overlaps a scan pulse corresponding to said period.

Assignments (7)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 25, 2018
From: HITACHI MAXELL, LTD.
To: MAXELL, LTD.
Reel/Frame 045142/0208 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 8, 2014
From: HITACHI CONSUMER ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.; HITACHI CONSUMER ELECTRONICS CO, LTD.
To: HITACHI MAXELL, LTD.
Reel/Frame 033694/0745 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 12, 2013
From: HITACHI, LTD.
To: HITACHI CONSUMER ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 030648/0217 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 5, 2012
From: HITACHI PLASMA DISPLAY LIMITED
To: HITACHI, LTD.
Reel/Frame 027801/0918 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Mar 2, 2012
From: FUJITSU HITACHI PLASMA DISPLAY LIMITED
To: HTACHI PLASMA DISPLAY LIMITED
Reel/Frame 027801/0600 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 23, 2006
From: TAKAGI, AKIHIRO; SASAKI, TAKASHI; OTSUKA, AKIRA
To: FUJITSU HITACHI PLASMA DISPLAY LIMITED
Reel/Frame 018031/0639 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 23, 2006
From: TAKAGI, AKIHIRO; SASAKI, TAKASHI; OTSUKA, AKIRA
To: FUJITSU HITACHI PLASMA DISPLAY LIMITED
Reel/Frame 017670/0311 →