Abstract
In AC-PDPs, the priming pulse is applied to all the cells regardless of the cell operation. It means that luminance in the area displayed in black increases, lowering the dark room contrast ratio. We propose a novel driving method to cut down on the priming pulse, and investigate the time response of luminance in various priming conditions. We found that the time response becomes slow especially in the case of displaying in the small area as a result of the experiments. Finally, we subjectively estimate the image quality controlling the priming condition.