Patent attributes
The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for driving a plasma display panel, and more particularly, to a scan drive apparatus and method of a plasma display panel. The present invention includes a data conversion unit converting video data to converted video data suitable for the PDP, a subfield mapping unit mapping a subfield corresponding to the converted video data, a data comparison unit computing a size of a displacement current by comparing video data of a cell bundle including at least one cell situated on a specific scan line to video data of a cell bundle situated in vertical and horizontal directions of the cell bundle according to each scan type of a plurality of scan types, and a scan sequence decision unit deciding a scan sequence according to the scan type having a small displacement current inputted from the data comparison unit.
