Plasma display device
View Patent ↗A technique which enables improvement of luminance and reduction of consumption power in a sustain discharge driving of a four-electrode structure PDP, particularly, by devising driving method to Z electrodes. In this plasma display device, a sustain discharge by a method to apply a narrow pulse to the Z electrode and a method to apply a fixed potential to the Z electrode are switched according to a judgment of range of display load ratio in driving sustain discharge from a controller and driver to the PDP and used.
1. A plasma display device comprising:
a plasma display panel including opposing first and second substrates sectioned by barrier ribs and a phosphor layer arranged between the barrier ribs, and a discharge space filled with a discharge gas; and
a circuit driving an electrode group which is formed in the plasma display panel, wherein:
in the first substrate, a plurality of first and second electrodes are arranged roughly in parallel alternately in a first direction, and a third electrode is arranged between the first and second electrodes,
in the second substrate, a fourth electrode is arranged so as to cross the first, second, and third electrodes in a second direction, and
in a sustain period, the circuit applies sustain pulses of a number corresponding to a display load ratio to the first and second electrodes, and
the circuit supplies a fixed potential to the third electrode when the display load ratio is low and the number of the sustain pulses is large, or the circuit applies a narrow pulse having a width narrower than that of a sustain pulse when the display load ratio is high and the number of the sustain pulses is small.
2. The plasma display device according to claim 1 , wherein:
an entire range of the display load ratio is divided into a first range of low display load, a second range of high display load, and a third range positioned in a range therebetween or overlapped thereon; and
to the third electrode, the circuit applies the fixed potential when the display load ratio is in the first range, applies the narrow pulse when the display load ratio is in the second range, and applies either of the fixed potential or the narrow pulse when the display load ratio is in the third range.
3. The plasma display device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the circuit decreases a rate of the number of sustain pulses between application times of the narrow pulse to the third electrode to the number of application times of sustain driving pulse to the first and second electrodes in the sustain period stepwise as the display load ratio becomes low.
4. The plasma display device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the circuit decreases an amplitude voltage of the narrow pulse applied to the third electrode in the sustain period stepwise as the display load ratio becomes low.
5. The plasma display device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the circuit forms a falling waveform of the narrow pulse by an LC resonant circuit to the third electrodes, and delays a timing of clamp to a lower potential as the display load ratio becomes low.
6. A plasma display device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the circuit detects or calculates the display load ratio of a subfield of display image, and according to the display load ratio of the subfield, switches and applies either the fixed potential or the narrow pulse per the subfield.