Method and apparatus for driving AC plasma display panel with four electrodes

Abstract

The present invention provides a driving method of a plasma display panel with ADS method comprising a reset period including an erase period, a rising period and a falling period, an address period and a sustain period, in which an auxiliary electrode is inserted between a scan electrode and a sustain electrode which are disposed in parallel on a front substrate, while an address electrode is disposed on a rear substrate facing the front substrate, wherein an erase pulse which rises from a first voltage to a second voltage is applied to the auxiliary electrode in the erase period. According to the present invention, the reset driving method is used in a four electrode AC PDP for a high efficiency, in which the reset discharge is stabilized by lowering the reset voltage, thereby, the address discharge is stabilized. Thus, the four electrode AC PDP having a high efficiency can be stably drived. The plasma display panel using the method uses a low reset voltage, so that the power consumption is reduced. Hence, the total energy efficiency is increased and a high definition PDP can be implemented due to a stable addressing.