Patent RE41872 was granted and assigned to Hitachi on October, 2010 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
When performing the line-sequential addressing for setting the state of each of the cells arranged in rows and columns that constitute a display screen, discharge is generated that has intensity in accordance with display data corresponding to each of all cells belonging to the selected row for each selection of the row. Thus, the priming effect in the following discharge is generated.