Patent 7619591 was granted and assigned to Imaging Systems Technology, Inc. on November, 2009 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
The simultaneous addressing and sustaining of an AC plasma display panel comprised of a multiplicity of Plasma-shells with the display divided into a plurality of Plasma-shell sections S1, S2, Sn. The Plasma-shells in at least one section of the panel are addressed while the Plasma-shells in at least one other section of the panel are simultaneously sustained. A reset voltage is simultaneously applied to all of the Plasma-shells in each section before the addressing of Plasma-shells in one section and the simultaneous sustaining of Plasma-shells in another section. Plasma-shell includes Plasma-sphere, Plasma-disc, and Plasma-dome.