Parking lot guidance system and parking lot guidance method

1. A parking lot guidance system comprising:

a detection unit configured to detect a vehicle which uses a parking lot;

a determination unit configured to determine whether the parking lot is in a congested state on the basis of a result of detection from the detection unit;

a selection unit configured to select a predetermined number of empty spaces in the parking lot on the basis of a result of determination from the determination unit; and

a display unit configured to display an image indicating the predetermined number of empty spaces,

wherein the selection unit selects the empty spaces from further inside in an extending direction of the vehicle passage in a first parking block which is a parking block including an empty space and being closer to a facility entrance provided at a position different from that of a parking lot entrance of the parking lot out of a plurality of parking blocks along a plurality of vehicle passages when the determination unit determines that the parking lot is in the congested state.

2. The parking lot guidance system according to claim 1 , wherein the selection unit selects the empty spaces from a side close to the facility entrance when the determination unit determines that the parking lot is not in the congested state.

3. The parking lot guidance system according to claim 1 , wherein the selection unit determines the predetermined number on the basis of the congested state determined by the determination unit.

4. The parking lot guidance system according to claim 3 , wherein the selection unit selects fewer of the empty spaces than the predetermined number of empty spaces in the first parking block and selects the residual number of empty spaces in a parking block other than the first parking block when the number of empty spaces in the first parking block is equal to or less than a reference.

5. The parking lot guidance system according to claim 1 , wherein the detection unit detects the number of vehicles which are present in the parking lot entrance within a predetermined time, and

wherein the determination unit determines that the parking lot is in the congested state when successive vehicles equal to or more than a reference are detected at the parking lot entrance on the basis of the result of detection from the detection unit.

6. The parking lot guidance system according to claim 1 , wherein the detection unit detects the number of vehicles in the parking blocks, and

wherein the determination unit determines that the parking lot is in the congested state when a parking ratio of the parking blocks is equal to or greater than a predetermined value on the basis of the result of detection from the detection unit.

7. The parking lot guidance system according to claim 1 , wherein the detection unit detects the number of vehicles entering the parking lot from the parking lot entrance per unit time, and

wherein the determination unit determines that the parking lot is in the congested state when the number of vehicles per unit time is equal to or greater than a predetermined number of vehicles on the basis of the result of detection from the detection unit.

8. The parking lot guidance system according to claim 1 , wherein the detection unit updates a table in which a plurality of parking spaces in the parking lot, the parking blocks, priority levels of the parking spaces in a normal state other than the congested state, priority levels of the parking spaces in the congested state, and information about whether a vehicle is present are correlated at a predetermined timing on the basis of the result of detection,

wherein the determination unit determines whether the parking lot is in the congested state with reference to the table, and

wherein the selection unit selects the empty spaces according to the priority levels with reference to the table on the basis of the result of determination from the determination unit.

9. A parking lot guidance method comprising:

detecting a vehicle which uses a parking lot;

determining whether the parking lot is in a congested state on the basis of a result of detection;

selecting a parking block in ascending order of distance from a facility entrance which is provided at a position different from that of a parking lot entrance of the parking lot out of a plurality of parking blocks along a plurality of vehicle passages on the basis of the congested state when it is determined that the parking lot is in the congested state;

selecting empty spaces from further inside in an extending direction of the corresponding vehicle passage out of a plurality of empty spaces included in the selected parking block; and

displaying an image indicating a predetermined number of selected empty spaces.

10. A parking lot guidance method comprising:

detecting a vehicle which uses a parking lot;

determining whether the parking lot is in a congested state on the basis of a result of detection of the vehicle;

selecting empty spaces from further inside in an extending direction of a vehicle passage in a first parking block which is a parking block including an empty space and being closer to a facility entrance provided at a position different from that of a parking lot entrance of the parking lot out of a plurality of parking blocks along a plurality of vehicle passages when it is determined that the parking lot is in the congested state; and

displaying an image indicating a predetermined number of selected empty spaces.