US Patent 7646361 Plasma display apparatus and driving method thereof

The present invention relates to a plasma display apparatus and driving method thereof. The plasma display apparatus according to the present invention comprises a Plasma Display Panel (PDP) including scan electrodes and sustain electrodes, a driver that supplies a pre-reset waveform to the scan electrodes or the sustain electrodes prior to a reset period of one or more sub-fields, and a controller that controls a period between a last sustain pulse, which is supplied to the scan electrodes or the sustain electrodes during a sustain period of a (n−1)th sub-field (where n is a positive integer), and an initialization signal, which is applied to the scan electrodes during a reset period of an nth sub-field, depending on a temperature of the PDP or an ambient temperature of the PDP.