Patent attributes
An improved plasma display panel (PDP) having decreased background brightness, decreased power consumption, and improved contrast includes an address electrode, and a scan electrode and a sustain electrode are arranged in pairs with the address electrode. The PDP driver includes a subfield data generator that generates subfield data from input image data. An address data driver is provided for applying to the address electrode a voltage that corresponds to the subfield data. An address data determiner included in the PDP driver detects a subfield which has no address data from among the subfield data, and outputs a control signal that controls a reset operation of the detected subfield. In response, a scan/sustain pulse driver applies to the scan electrode and the sustain electrode a voltage that corresponds to the control signal provided by the address data determiner.
