Patent ID: 8359160

Claim:
A navigation device comprising: an input device into which operating commands and location data can be entered, a road network database, a route calculation unit for calculating and storing a planned route taking into account the location data and the road network database, a signal receiving unit for receiving position signals, particularly GPS signals, a position determining unit for determining the current position of a vehicle by taking into account the received position signals, and a display device operable to display a route preview, wherein the route calculation unit is operable to calculate the route preview which represents at least one section of the planned route as a film sequence, starting from the current vehicle position; wherein, in the route preview, only one route section of the planned route is represented, whereby the start of the route preview is defined on the basis of the current vehicle position, and whereby the end of the route preview is defined on the basis of an intermediate point of the planned route, which lies ahead of the destination of the planned route.