Patent ID: 8731818
Filing Date: 2014-05-20
Classification: G01C,G08G

Abstract:
1. A navigation system for a motor vehicle, comprising: a receiving unit operatively configured to receive traffic messages to which a location information object is in each case assigned, wherein the location information objects each include a location of a corresponding traffic interruption; a display unit, in the motor vehicle, for displaying a digital road map; and a control unit operatively coupled to the receiving unit and the display unit; wherein the control unit controls a successive displaying on to the display unit of cutouts of the digital road map to which the received traffic messages relate based on corresponding successive operating actions received by the control unit from an operator of the motor vehicle thereby causing a browsing through the cutouts of the digital road map to which the received traffic messages relate, wherein each of the cutouts displayed by said browsing corresponds to one of the locations having the traffic interruptions.