Patent attributes
The present invention relates to a plasma display panel driving method and apparatus for reducing subfield position variation between display frames by arranging an idle period among the subfields. The subfields included in the frame may be divided into at least two subfield groups with reference to a predetermined weight value at which flicker may occur. An idle period, which is substantially a residual time of the frame excluding the subfields, may be arranged between two divided subfield groups. Accordingly, flicker caused by the variation of the number of subfields between frames can be prevented because of the reduced positional variation of the subfields.