Encoding/decoding apparatus and method using flexible deblocking filtering

A video decoding method, comprising:

• generating a quantized frequency transform block by decoding a bitstream;
• reconstructing a residual block by inversely quantizing and inversely transforming the quantized frequency transform block;
• generating a prediction block corresponding to a current block;
• reconstructing the current block by adding the generated prediction block to the reconstructed residual block;
• and
• performing a deblocking filtering with respect to a boundary between subblocks within a frame including the reconstructed current block, by allowing numbers of filtered pixels in a first subblock of the subblocks and a second subblock of the subblocks that engage in the filtering to be different depending on one or more predetermined criterion,
• wherein the performing the deblocking filtering is configured to perform the filtering by applying different pixel disparity values on the first subblock or the second subblock according to pixel positions relative to the boundary between the first and second subblocks,
• wherein the performing the deblocking filtering calculates a first pixel disparity value corresponding to a first position from the boundary using a first offset value and calculates a second pixel disparity value corresponding to a second position from the boundary using a second offset value,
• wherein the first offset value and the second offset value are decided irrelevant to pixel values of the first subblock or the second subblock,
• wherein the one or more predetermined criterion comprises a linearity of a subblock unit in a direction of depth from the boundary between the first subblock and the second subblock,
• wherein the linearity of the subblock unit is obtained by selecting two representative rows for the subblock unit and summing linearities of two representative rows,
• wherein the linearity of the subblock unit is generated by the difference between a sum of a first pixel located in a first position from the boundary and a third pixel located in a third position from the boundary, and a second pixel multiplied by 2, the second pixel located in a second position from the boundary.